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In article <LIBOVE.91Feb1113746@libove.det.dec.com>, libove@libove.det.dec.com (Jay Vassos-Libove) writes:
> In article <WINDLEY.91Jan31102752@cheetah.cheetah.cs.uidaho.edu> windley@cheetah.cs.uidaho.edu (Phil Windley/20000000) writes:
> 
>    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
> 
> No, the current DEC "RRD40" CD ROM drives do not have a music port on them.
> 

DEC is switching from LMS to Sony, and from custom to off-the-shelf drives.
Sony is only making custom CDROMs for Apple and SUN, and I assume it is
just a microcode difference. The Sony CDU 541 **DOES** have an audio jack
on the front, and a connector on the rear. You will get a flip open caddy
with the new RRD42 drives, and DEC will no longer ship CDs in LMS's 
proprietary caddy (RRD40 style), but in Tyvek sleeves in a 12 CD pouch.

For VMS, DEC has now dropped microfiche for source listings, so you have to 
get the CD version. Decus s/w is now on CDrom. Since LMF controls
how long s/w is used, demos of s/w and of DEC's new Ed Services
CD based training courses are distributed on CDROM, 'free'. I have in my hand
a pile of 31 "Decus Trail PAKs" DEC's  s/w demo offer from the last DECUS.
Call 800.343.4040 and say you want the DEC World / Decus demo CDROM.
3 months of things like C, PAscal, Fortran, ADA, LISP, NOTES, etc.
They sure aren't going to GIVE you tk50s for all that s/w!, but a CDROM,
why not! Current demo PAKs drop dead after 30-apr-1991.

With wholesale of that Sony drive being between 400 and 450 (@ quantity 1, 
internal model ), street price isn't that much more! remember it IS a 
PC drive too, so there is SERIOUS discounting.