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Article #2056Re: CD-ROM delays (was Re: CD-ROMs from DECUS)
From: Rice Don D
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 1990 16:45
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 1990 16:45
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In article <15500018@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>, sritacco@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Steve Ritacco) writes... >The DEC CD-ROM drive RRD40 exists, and so does RISC Ultrix on CD-ROM. >I have both (UWS 2.1). My guess is that it is the Ultrix 4.0 CD-ROM >that is holding you up. They probably didn't want to master the CD >until they got things cleaned up a bit. > >You didn't buy a non-existant product, in fact loading Ultrix from >CD-ROM is a joy compared to the normal tape stuff. I just heard back from our salesguys that the RRD40 is out of stock, and they can't find a ship date for it, but probably a few weeks. They also couldn't get a ship date for the media and docs (also out of stock), but I hope it is no worse than the Oct 1 date mentioned previously for Ultrix 4.0 docs. Incidentally, I found out where our workstations have been the last two weeks when they were supposed to be here. Someday I will look back and laugh and write up the whole story for alt.folklore.computers... > >On the other hand, DEC's comitment to CD-ROM is questionable. >Just try to get anything but Ultrix or VMS on CD-ROM! > I hope they come up with either Bookreader or the general ISO format read routines for CD-ROM on Ultrix soon...they were the main reasons for specifying the RRD40. But right now I'd be happy to see anything from DEC, because we still have _zip_. Don Rice Internet: fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu Geophysical Institute E-mail: fnddr@alaska.bitnet University of Alaska Phone: (907) 474-7569 Fairbanks, AK 99775 Loran: 64.86N 212.16E
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!snorkelwacker!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!bionet!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!acad3.fai.alaska.edu!fnddr From: fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (Rice Don D) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: CD-ROM delays (was Re: CD-ROMs from DECUS) Summary: No CD-ROM drives Message-ID: <1990Sep14.164520.1410@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> Date: 14 Sep 90 16:45:20 GMT References: <1990Sep12.174134.26414@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> <15500018@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> Sender: usenet@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (J Random USENET) Reply-To: fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks Lines: 29 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4