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From: JWANKERL@UTCVM.BITNET (Josef Wankerl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: When are the optical drives coming out??
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Date: 12 Jan 89 17:49:25 GMT
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     I just finished seeing a demo of the NeXT computer work station.
The thing that really caught my eye was the Optical Drive system.
Now I know the basic theory behind reading from a CD, but how do you
go about re-writing information back?

    The NeXT machine mainly used a Winchester hard drive for it's disk
I/O because it was a little bit faster, but that was only because of the
operating system version (0.6, but they now have 0.8 out).

    Can anyone explain to me how the drive writes back?

                 -Gonzo