CD drives: what's, uh, the deal?

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From: Doug Linder
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1989 16:57

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I'm thinking about getting a CD drive but I have no idea which one or whether I
should bother.  Does anyone know about this?  I have seen drives advertised as
true read/write (i.e; write more than once).  Do they really work?  Can anyone
suggest a drive for me which is a frialy good compromise of price/quality?  Do
they plug into the drive controller card or do they need their own?  Also, what
is available referencewise?  I have heard it rumoured that one could get the
Oxford English Dictionary, the Bible, Shakespeare's plays, encyclopedias, etc. 
Is this stuff out, and where do I get it?

	Thanks a lot, I'd like to have one but don't want to spend a lot of
money on soemthing I can't use that much.

        Thanks!
-- 
	Douglas D. Linder, Merrimack College, N. Andover, MA
CSNET:	ain14922@merrimack.edu
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Subject: CD drives: what's, uh, the deal?
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