simon@cs.ualberta.ca (Simon Tortike) (06/28/91)
I was interested to read about Apple's new CD-ROM reader, and
particularly the bit about the drive supporting the ISO and High Sierra
formats. We would like to be able to put a CD-ROM reader on our
AppleTalk network, but with the ability to read CD-ROMs which were
designed to be run with IBM-PC systems. This is important because
most of the oil & gas industry data available now on CD-ROM is only for
PC-based systems, similarly for engineering aids in general.
If the drive supports these formats, then I suppose all we
have to do is wait for someone to write Macintosh versions of the
search and display software already bundled on these CD-ROMs.
Would anyone care to comment on the likelihood of this new drive
being useful for someone who wants to read CD-ROMs pressed for the
PC market?
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and Petroleum Engineering, |
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Edmonton, AB, CANADA T6G 2G6. | NeXTmail: simon@nawab.mineral.UAlberta.CAblob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) (06/28/91)
simon@cs.ualberta.ca (Simon Tortike) writes: >I was interested to read about Apple's new CD-ROM reader, and >particularly the bit about the drive supporting the ISO and High Sierra >formats. >Would anyone care to comment on the likelihood of this new drive >being useful for someone who wants to read CD-ROMs pressed for the >PC market? Both the High Sierra and ISO 9660 formats have been supported on the existing CD-ROM drive and the new CD-ROM drive for quite some time. It's going to depend upon what's in a data file and what software you can find to understand the data files. For instance, a dBase file for MS-DOS could be read and understood by FoxBase on a Macintosh computer. Putting such a file on an ISO 9660 format CD-ROM would then guarantee that the same file could be accessed by either computer. --Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com "My opinion, not Apple's"