Optical Drives on DEC workstations

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From: Fred Velijanian
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:00

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I have experience with Pinnacle Micro optical drives (Sony based)
on a DECstation and a SPARCstation. Our favourite 3rd party 
vendor now sells a new drive from Maxoptics and recommends it
very strongly.

1. Does anyone have experience with the Maxoptics vs Sony?
   Apparently the former is faster and holds 1GB per platter vs 650MB for Sony.

2. I've heard that DEC sells an optical drive product, but know
   nothing about it. Can anyone enlighten me on this?

3. What other options for optical drives are there?

4. Are the media interchangable between these technologies?

5. What drive does HP resell?

6. Is there a drive that will work on both DECstations and 
   VAXstations? Can VMS read/write ISO 9660 standard disks?

Thanks for any help

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu

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Subject: Optical Drives on DEC workstations
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