🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 25 Mar 1996 20:32:57 GMT gm78@dial.pipex.com (Matt Francis)
spewed such:


>You can't write to a CD-ROM. Just to remind, the RO part stands for
>"read-only". There is such a thing as a CD-ROM burner (for people with
>$many) which will write whole CDs at a time on special writeable
>blanks, but this is still write-once - you can't change it thereafter.
>[at a push, these will do multiple "sessions" on one CD, sequentially,
>but for technical reasons, you lose a number of megs per new "session"
>apart from whatever it is you want to write]. If you want to use one
>of these, I believe (being far too poor to own one myself!) that they
>generally need their own, proprietary software, which will probably be
>sold seperately to you for another $many.

	Actually to clear things up just a bit more : CD writeable drives have
been plummeting in price for a while now, with a little searching you
can pick one up for about $1500.
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