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- From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
- Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:59:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.145953.3895@zds-oem.zds.com>
- References: <1992Dec29.221442.7137@pro-freedom.cts.com> <C03vrC.79J@NeoSoft.com> <C043q8.8pC@news.iastate.edu>
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- In article <C043q8.8pC@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >In article <C03vrC.79J@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >>Read-write mini-CDs hit the market this year. They're going to destroy
- >>casettes.
- >
- > I doubt it. Cassettes recently got a reguvenation, from new DAT drives that
- >can store digitally on ordinary cassettes, and play old analog-written
- >cassettes. This is highly attractive to people who have lots of old cassettes
- >and want to still be able to use them.
-
- uh, I think your talking about DCC's. DAT's have nothing in common
- with ordinary analog cassettes. DAT is technically superior to DCC but
- is being killed as a consumer product.
-
- >| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
-
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- Monte Carlo Z-LS/20 - Choice of a quiet generation
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