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Re: CD Drive

#26133
From: spinner
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1987 02:03
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> From: neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris)
> Subject: Re: CD Drive
> In article <513@ubu.warwick.UUCP>, agm@warwick.UUCP (Andy Minter) writes:
> 
>> I thought you netters out there mught be interested to know tha a British
>> company called British Unaxial Lasers has developped a CD based optical disk
>> for the ST.  The drives should be available for under 200 pounds when
>> they are launched later this year.
> 
> Please get the address and telephone number of this company onto the net!
> The price is unbelievable.  I'd personally like to know as much as possible
> about this.
> 
> -- 
> --->Neil Harris, Director of Marketing Communications, Atari Corporation

I assume your response is also a joke; or perhaps you did not notice
that the original was posted with a date of 4/1/87 :)

April Fools!

Ron

[PS - If there REALLY were such a beast (emphasis on WRITEABLE CD), I
would not only have heard about it elsewhere, I would own one]
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: CD Drive
Message-ID: <10865@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 21:03:05 EST
Article-I.D.: topaz.10865
Posted: Wed Apr  8 21:03:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 09:46:13 EST
References: <513@ubu.warwick.UUCP> <695@atari.UUCP>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: CD Optical Read/Write Disk