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From: osborn@ut-emx.UUCP (John H. Osborn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: 2nd Optical Drive
Keywords: possible? cost? stupid?
Message-ID: <12399@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 20:37:50 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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Are there any plans for NeXT to offer a second optical drive?

Such a drive would be significantly cheaper than having buy the 330mb
hard drive to have enough storage.  I remember BYTE estimating the
cost of a second optifloppy (grin) at something like $1000.

So, does the optical controller circuitry have the capacity to control
a second drive?  If not, would the addition of a second optical drive
still be possible, perhaps through an expansion card?  Would such a move
be silly, considering the speed of the optical?  We can only hope that
the reported 0.9 speed increases are true.

-John Osborn
UTexas Computation Center User Services