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From: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: cdrom questions
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.192953.28335@eye.com>
Date: 23 Jan 91 19:29:53 GMT
Reply-To: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Organization: 3D/Eye Inc., Ithaca, NY
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An hp 600/A cd rom drive appeared at our place last week, bringing with it a
couple of questions.  Maybe someone in this group can help:

1. VERY IMPORTANT:  Is it possible to play "normal" audio cd's with these
   things?  Sure, the drive has headphone jacks and a volume slider, but
   I'm guessing that I need some kind of software to control the drive and
   divert the audio to the jack.  Any ideas where I might find such a
   beastie for s300-s400 machines??

2. On a more serious note, has anyone out there used the HP-LASERROM
   documentation product?  What are your impressions of the X-interface
   of this guy, and do you consider the whole concept useful?  Would you
   say that laserrom is a viable alternative to paper manuals?  My current
   support contracts give me 3 sets of paper manuals which are shared among
   some 20 workstations.  I'd like to replace all this paper with laserrom
   docs on all workstations and maybe 1 set of paper manuals.  Reasonable?

Thanks for any ideas y'all might have.
   

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Paul B. Booth  (paul@eye.com) (...!hplabs!hpfcla!eye!paul)
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