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From: mings@geriatrix.cs.uoregon.edu (Ming Yau So)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Reviews of Non-Apple CD-ROM drives (Summary)
Summary: observation about differencees between CDR35 and CDR36
Keywords: cd-rom,nec
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.083337.19273@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 91 08:33:37 GMT
References: <7188@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <4194@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
Sender: mings@cs.uoregon.edu (Ming Yau So)
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In article <4194@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> gdavis@primate.wisc.edu writes:
>From article <7188@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, by omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley):
>> My recent query for comparative reviews of non-Apple CD drives resulted in
>> several responses.  Here's the info.
>> 
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>> The one drive to avoid is the small, low-cost NEC portable drive, which
>> I've seen in a few ads for Adobe fonts recently.  It's reportedly quite
>> slow and unreliable.
>
>I called Educorp about the NEC drives bundled with the NEC package of
>Adobe fonts. The low priced drive is the CDR-36 which the salesperson
>claimed had a time of 500 msec. I asked her if she didn't mean 1500,
>which is the speed advertised for the CDR-35, but she insisted it was
>500. The price for the CDR-36 with the NEC Type Gallery is $479, cheaper
>than the $499 for the CDR-35 alone. Something seems wrong here. Does
>anyone know anything about the CDR-36?

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Here are some of my observations about the differences between NEC CDR-35
and CDR-36 (these are just my personnal observations, not confirmed yet).

By looking at the pictures of CDR-35 and CDR-36, I found that the SCSI
interface and the drive of CDR-36 is a single unit, unlike the CDR-35,
where the drive is detachable from the SCSI interface.  Another observation
is the CDR-36 does not play, stop, forward, rewind buttons (at least I
can't see any of them), so I assume that the CDR-36 cannot work as a
portable CD player when disconnected from the computer.



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