cs161fhn@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) (12/01/90)
What are the different CDROM formats? If you get any old 660Meg CD ROM will it be able to read any CD ROM disc? Should I take the $270 plunge? I've seen several companies in Silicon Valley selling Hitachi units for around $250 (Halted Specialties Co. for example) and ERAC in Poway (San Diego area) sells a Toshiba unit for $265 with SCSI controller. The Toshiba sold at ERAC is supposedly "Yellow book" standard and is bundled with "Msoft (Microsoft?) Extension. The CD-ROMS connected (via SCSI) to the Sun SPARCStations where I work use the "High Sierra" format. The Hitachi supposedly has it's own tray so you don't need separate CD carriers. (The cool thing is that these CDROM drives have audio ports so you can play your audio CD's in it!) (BTW, please don't ask me for the phone numbers to the places selling the CDROM drives. Please look them up for yourselves! I don't have the numbers handy...) -- Dennis Lou | "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?" dlou@ucsd.edu | "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!" [backbone]!ucsd!dlou +---------------------------------------------------- dlou@ucsd.BITNET cs161fhn@sdcc10.ucsd.edu | Woz went to my high school.