sk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sun Kun Kim) (09/05/90)
Well, I just got my October issue of Amiga World and what a PLEASANT
surprise on page 43! Xetec has an ad for a CD-ROM drive for the Amiga.
$599 for the internal(A2000-A3000) and $699 for the external model. It
includes a CD called 'Fish and More' which includes the Fred Fish
library(upto #360) and additional PD software totally over 400 megs!
So, I guess this just isn't a rumor anymore, but a reality. You can
also play regular audio CD's. Just thought you guys might be interested
in this with all this talk of Fred Fish disks on CD-ROM. Party on dudes!
Sun...davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) (09/27/90)
In article <oasyqgG00VpA1mJl8v@andrew.cmu.edu> sk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sun Kun Kim) writes: Well, I just got my October issue of Amiga World and what a PLEASANT surprise on page 43! Xetec has an ad for a CD-ROM drive for the Amiga. $599 for the internal(A2000-A3000) and $699 for the external model. It includes a CD called 'Fish and More' which includes the Fred Fish library(upto #360) and additional PD software totally over 400 megs! So, I guess this just isn't a rumor anymore, but a reality. You can also play regular audio CD's. Just thought you guys might be interested in this with all this talk of Fred Fish disks on CD-ROM. Party on dudes! You know, a marketting concern about CD-ROMs just hit me. ROM means "read-only" (duh!). Therefore, the average user of the CD-ROM is going to be totally reliant on vendors for the production of data to put on these things. In the PC or MAC market, I could see there being a significant number of vendors to support that, but can we really expect that in the Amiga market. What's the possibility of there being some sort of standard for these CD-ROMs such that PC or MAC CD-ROMs would be useable to the Amiga CD-ROMs (information as well as media)? -- ==================================================================== David Masterson Consilium, Inc. uunet!cimshop!davidm Mtn. View, CA 94043 ==================================================================== "If someone thinks they know what I said, then I didn't say it!"