Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!sgi!shinobu!fido.wpd.sgi.com!odin!anchor!olson From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: CD ROM Survey & SASE Message-ID: <1991Apr28.014142.11140@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 28 Apr 91 01:41:42 GMT References: <9104250834.aa13033@VGR.BRL.MIL> <1991Apr27.195114.25675@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA Lines: 25 In <1991Apr27.195114.25675@leland.Stanford.EDU> dhinds@elaine18.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes: | Have any SGI customers gotten their CD ROM drives yet? Does anyone | know what the schedule is for distributing these? We got the promo stuff | months ago (with those wonderful blank CD's - duh, what a great line, | "this CD is blank, however it holds great potential") but we haven't heard | anything from SGI about actually getting the drive. Is there anything | we need to do? The CDROM support is part of 4.0. A very few customers will get them as part of the Beta test of 4.0 (don't ask me for dates!). To the best of my knowledge, all beta sites are chosen, so don't ask if you if you can be part of the beta test. :) Other customers who order them (presumably as part of the promotional program referred to in the referenced message) should be getting them with the 4.0 release at about the same time as those who are getting 4.0 on QIC tape. 4.0 release date isn't public knowledge yet, but it IS some months away, at least. -- Dave Olson Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.