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From: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT Optical Drive/Magneto-Optics
Message-ID: <4004@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 88 20:53:01 GMT
References: <4XJgQly00Uw9049VhI@andrew.cmu.edu> <4489@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
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In article <4489@polya.Stanford.EDU> shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) writes:
>Can anyone present a cogent theory as to why they elected to go with a
>CD disk over standard magnetic media.  It would seem to me, for
>example, that using a Wren IV or any of a number of other drives would
>almost undoubtedly be considerably cheaper than the laser drive,

Well, for one thing, it's in character for Steve Jobs to try to
do things differently.  Witness the Mac's disks-- not quite unique
at the time, but damn close.  Optical drives are the coming thing,
so Steve had to throw one in.
For another thing, do drives like the Wren IV have removable platters?
Can they offer the same capacity at the same price per blank disk
(something like $50 each...)?
I'll believe a cheaper magnetic drive with a fixed disk, but 
removable... that sounds a little optimistic.

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-Antonio Romero     romero@confidence.princeton.edu