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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato Uni...
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 05:16
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 05:16
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In article <1874@shaman.wv.tek.com>, andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) writes: > > "A while back PC magazine did a review on CD-ROMs. They had a > sidebar about the Tandy one. The one they were talking about > impressed them. Basically it was about average in read time > ..." > > But absolutely abysmal in mean access time, rated at *900* > milliseconds! What impressed PC Magazine was the low price -- CD-ROM > for the masses who don't need multimedia performance. But I thought it *was* capable of multimedia performance. According to one definition of "multimedia", anyway. :-) The access time may have been 900ms, but its data throughput was, I gather, more than high enough to meet the MPC spec. Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-7-856-2889 Computer Services Dept fax: +64-7-838-4066 University of Waikato electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!ldo From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: Radio shack 199.00 special.. Message-ID: <1992Oct2.171609.11205@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 2 Oct 92 17:16:09 +1200 References: <1992Sep28.184844.1790@head-cfa.harvard.edu> <1992Sep28.210348.10525@exu.ericsson.se> <1874@shaman.wv.tek.com> Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 21