Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!scooter!neoucom!wtm
From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT
Summary: Speaking of optical drives
Message-ID: <1372@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 14:50:14 GMT
References: <4450@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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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.

It would be interesting to know what the access times were.
Apparently, Canon had their optical drives ready about a year ago,
but could not market them independently becasue they had an
exclusive contract with NeXT that stipulated taht Canon could not
sell the bare drives before the NeXT computer was introduced.

If Canon makes one with a SCSI interface, it could be a nifty
add-on to use with our Amigas.

--Bill