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Article #693Re: Radio shack 199.00 special..
From: Galen Raben
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 22:33
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 22:33
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In comp.multimedia, kenter@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Almus Kenter) writes: > Radio shack is having a special sale on an internal > CD ROM reader for only 199.00. (reg 399.00) > what is the net wisdom on that unit? Is it really slow? > is it only for some perverse Tandy format.....? > --Almus Isn't the Radio Shack unit a Mitsumi? If so, it's the same drive thats been appearing "on-sale" almost everywhere. I think Software Etc. had these at $199 and CompuAdd at $169 (last I heard...). Access time is a bit slow at 700ms, I dunno about thruput. Multimedia PC spec (MPC-1) suggests < 500ms access and >150 kb/sec thruput. Slow access one could probably live with but if it's less than 150 kb/sec thruput, "semi-smooth" motion in video is out... Another inexpensive drive I saw recently was in DAK at $199, access was very slow, but thruput was OK... Heard DAK went bankrupt though, dunno if they still sell stuff or not. Anyone know? I haven't seen a catalog in several months... - Galen -
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From: galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:33:54 GMT Subject: Re: Radio shack 199.00 special.. Message-ID: <17270009@hpgrla.gr.hp.com> Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!scd.hp.com!hplextra!hpfcso!hpgrla!galenr Newsgroups: comp.multimedia References: <1992Sep28.184844.1790@head-cfa.harvard.edu> Lines: 25