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From: schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: R/W CD's
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Date: 14 Mar 90 09:28:51 GMT
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Reply-To: schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur)
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In article <581.25F944C8@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> Sandy.Elrick@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Sandy Elrick) writes:
>
>  I have a question to put to anyone.  Is there a product out for the
>Amiga that allows, at least readable, CD drives?  Are there any
>read/writes for the Amiga?  Also, what is the best solution for one to
>get a nice Hard Drive for an Amiga 500?
>    Sandy Elrick
>

Yes. They are called Optical Erasable Drives. There are three that I know
of available, from 540MB to 1 Gibabyte PER CARTRIDGE. In other words, you
can buy the drive for around $4500 and as many cartridges after that for
a few hundred dollars each. The cartridges are as exchangable as floppy
disks. The drives are not made specifically for the amiga. I believe the
ones available are Mac drives. However there are 3 SCSI companies that
are supporting these drives for the Amiga. The only people I know who
are selling these drives is Briwall. You can find an ad for them in just
about any Amiga magazine. I can't remember off hand where they are located
or their phone number. But they do have a technical assistance line which
will answer any questions you would have about these drives. The only 
drawback I have heard of, and this is hearsay, is that they are considerably
slower than a hard drive.


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