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From: slfields@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Scott L Fields)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CD-ROMs (Was Re: Dictionary for the Amy?)
Message-ID: <1989Dec19.170954.24982@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 89 17:09:54 GMT
References: <5287@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <554@grape3.UUCP> <156@emdeng.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: slfields@uokmax.UUCP (Scott L Fields)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network, Norman, OK
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>>>Does there exist a PD(Prefered)/Commercial version of computerized dictionary 
>>>for the Amiga?   [...]
>
>>The new version of the Oxford English Dictionary is available on CD-ROM.  Of
>>course, that would mean getting a CD-ROM reader and some appropriate software,
>Does this mean that there actually _is_ a CD-ROM interface for the Amiga?
>All I've seen are for PeeCee's.


If you have a SCSI interface, you have the CD-ROM interface. I realize that
not all {most now do} CD-ROM players have SCSI interfaces. The trick is 
getting the software driver.