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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Drives
Message-ID: <1781@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 22 Jun 91 04:44:48 GMT
References: <1769@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <16777@adobe.UUCP>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <16777@adobe.UUCP> byer@adobe.com writes:
>|Very few people in the Bay Area seem terribly interested in
>|CD-ROM for a variety of reasons (in no particular order):
>
>Plese don't try and speak for the rest of us.

I'm not speaking for, I'm reporting what I've been told.
My sample isn't random NeXT users, it's preselected by
BANG (local user group) participation.  BANG had planned
to produce a CD-ROM (similar to, but not a clone of) the
Big Green Disk.  The project essentially fizzled because
of lack of interest on the consumer side.  If there are
so many people out there who WANT CD-ROM, where ARE you?

>|+ relatively expensive hardware
>Relative to a floppy drive and large numbers of floppies?
>Relative to the current flopticals?

Relative to "I'm just a poor student and I really can't
afford blah blah blah."  (Not speaking for my self, just
echoing something I hear *a lot*.)

>|Now if NeXT wants to offer software on Exabyte 8200 cartridges,
>|I'm listening.  :-)
>
>Yet-another-incompatible (and unreliable) storage medium? No Thanks!

Incompatible?  Funny, there's EXPLICIT support in the NeXT
operating system for Exabytes (xt driver).  Unreliable?
The Exabytes are one of the MOST reliable tape systems on
the market.

>Besides, wouldn't you just *love* to pipe raw CD audio bits through the DSP, to  
>do all *sorts* of interesting things with it!  Or, CDV and NeXTtv!

Don't worry, the "copy protection" police will see that you can't
do that.  (No smiley)

					-=EPS=-