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From: lbruck@eneevax.UUCP (Lewis S.Bruck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT
Summary: Optical drive speeds
Message-ID: <1827@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 00:31:35 GMT
References: <4450@polya.Stanford.EDU> <1372@neoucom.UUCP>
Reply-To: lbruck@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Lewis S.Bruck)
Organization: Elec. Eng. Dept., U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
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In article <1372@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>
>Speaking of optical drives, does anybody have the performance
>specifications of the Canon drive used in the NeXT computer?  All
>I've heard thus far is that it is 256 MB per side, and that the
>media costs $50.  Apparently, each disk can hold 512 MB, but must
>be flipped over to access the B side.

I saw a figure of about 91 ms access time.  I haven't heard what either
NeXT or Canon are using for interface, but a SCSI drive will probably
be available soon, if at least to satisfy the Mac market, which for better
or for worse is the driving force behind microcomputer SCSI

>--Bill

Lewis Bruck
Who is officially not even here

or anywhere