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Subject: Re: A3000UX at UniForum?
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Date: 6 Feb 91 04:15:12 GMT
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Yes, there are CD-ROM drives for the Amiga, but the better bet is the Tahiti
Rewritable Optical drive that stores *one gigabyte* of memory, and is therefore
a better option for a machine potentially expandable to a few gigabytes.
By the way, an internal CD-ROM drive costs about $550, while the Tahiti
rewritable optical drive weighs in at a price of ten internal CD-ROMs at only
$5500.  A neat piece of technology, but hardly economical for a machine like
the Amiga. (Think about a Unix-bundled A3000 with this drive.....about $10000
for a system!)