quairoli@cs.widener.edu (Patrick Quairoli) (06/26/91)
could anyone give me some pro's and con's about CD-ROMS? excluding the fact that they are generaly slow; do you feel that the investment is worth it? if anyone uses a CD-ROMS i would really like to hear your views on them. e-mail replies preferred -- ______________________________________________________________________________ quairoli@cs.widener.edu |"If you ask me how do I feel inside; widener!quairoli | I could honestly tell you. patrick j. quairoli | We've been taken on a very long ride"
acp@apatel.mitre.org (Anup C. Patel) (06/27/91)
In article <Y30=-3C@cs.widener.edu>, quairoli@cs.widener.edu (Patrick Quairoli) writes: > > > could anyone give me some pro's and con's about CD-ROMS? > excluding the fact that they are generaly slow; do you feel > that the investment is worth it? if anyone uses a CD-ROMS > i would really like to hear your views on them. > > e-mail replies preferred > > > > -- > ______________________________________________________________________________ > quairoli@cs.widener.edu |"If you ask me how do I feel inside; > widener!quairoli | I could honestly tell you. > patrick j. quairoli | We've been taken on a very long ride" > > I have a Hitachi TCDR-6000 CD-ROM drive. This is not one of the faster drives, but suites our purposes. We subscribe to Computer Library, a CD containing well over 65,000 articles from computer magazines. Range of magazines cover from IEEE magazines to Seybold reports to PCWEEK, MacWeek. In terms of performing searches and lookups, the CD-ROM does not SEEM to be that slow. If you can afford the drive and CD's, I think they are a great deal. I think NEC CD drives are faster than most. Anup Patel The MITRE Corp. acp@apatel.mitre.org patel@mwunix.mitre.org