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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: When are the optical drives coming out??
Message-ID: <11585@reed.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 02:33:19 GMT
References: <8901132000.aa00971@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <8901132000.aa00971@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> JWANKERL@UTCVM.BITNET (Josef Wankerl) writes:
>
>     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?

You mean it caught your ear -- it sounds like a radiator! :-)

>    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).

You can have just optical disk NeXT boxes, liek the one next to me, but
*jjjjeeeeeezzzzzz* is it S-L-O-W!!!

if 0.8 is faster, man am I glad I never saw 0.6!

>                 -Gonzo

Sean Kamath
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