CD-ROM: What's it good for?

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From: Phil Windley/20000000
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 18:27

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I'm getting ready to accept a bid from DEC on a DECStation 5000/200PX.  The
system software is comoing on CD-ROM and I'm getting a CD-ROM drive.  My
question is what is the CD-ROM drive good for besides reading software
updates, etc.  Are there any other disks that can be used with it?  Can it
play Music CD's like IBM's drive can?  Is there any special software that
one can get for it?  

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Phil Windley                          |  windley@cheetah.cs.uidaho.edu
Assistant Professor		      |  windley@cs.uidaho.edu
Department of Computer Science        |
University of Idaho                   |  Phone: 208.885.6501  
Moscow, ID 83843                      |  Fax:   208.885.6645

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