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- Path: sparky!uunet!well!shiva
- From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
- Subject: Apple, Toshiba, Procom, or Texel on PC
- Message-ID: <C1FIzx.JF8@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:43:08 GMT
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- I've been waiting for the new double-speed multi-session drives to
- come out before committing to a drive purchase. From what I've seen
- here on the list, it looks like the Apple is the most tricked-out: it
- has SCSI-2 audio commands and the ability to read non-CDROM data like
- CD-Audio and CD-Graphics. All of the other drives are pretty similar
- except that they lack these features.
-
- Is the Apple available to PC owners, and would I expect any problems
- hooking it up to a PC? (Target OS will probably be OS/2, and
- occasionally Windows/DOS.) If not, I understand that the Apple drive
- is really a Sony; when the drive is released under Sony's label, will
- it still have the nifty extended feature set?
-
- What advantages do the other drives have over the Apple?
-