From: sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: NEW DAK External CD-ROM.  (Re:  DAK $229 CD-ROM details)
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:57:49 GMT
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

In article <1992Apr7.231748.17856@ninja.zso.dec.com>, Hans Ridder <ridder@zso.dec.com> writes:
|> In article <1992Apr06.172915.27511@watson.ibm.com> sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) writes:
|> >For a mere $229, however you can get a Sony?  internal SCSI CD-ROM drive
|> >(with Microsoft bookshelf). I have just purchased one for my 3000. Am
|> >placing the order for the CD-ROMFS tonight.
|> 
|> Is this $229 CD-ROM drive also from DAK, or somewhere else?  Sorry if
|> this was already mentioned, our newsfeed has been flakey.

Hate to do this, but here is the majority of Blaine's posting on the subject....

blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers) writes:
The drive is an NEC CDR-80, half-height, internal, 500 ms access time.
There's a mini-stereo jack and volume control on the front, and an
oddball three pin audio connector on the back. According to CPR, the
CDR-80 is three generations back in NEC's product line, and has been
obsoleted by their newer and faster drives. The 1988 manufacture date
on my drive bears this out.

Also included are an IBM SCSI card, mini-stereo to dual RCA cable, a CD
caddy, the 1991 version of Microsoft's "Bookshelf" CD-ROM (dictionary,
thesaurus, famous quotations), and a DAK manual for the disc.

The CDR-80 isn't listed in any of the DAK catalogs I've seen, but its
order number is 5986. (Thanks to Robert Kimball who originally posted
this info back in December.)

I got my CDR-80 about two months ago, so I'm not sure if DAK still has
any left in stock. The DAK catalog lists an external CD-ROM drive for
$400, but I have no idea if it is SCSI or not.

Here are DAK's phone numbers.

Orders 800-325-0800
Tech Info 800-888-9818
Other Inquiries 800-888-7808
TDD 800-888-6703
FAX 818-888-2837

To get it working on my A3000 required a case & power supply, the CDROM-FS
from CPR (about $40 mailorder, I got my copy from Safe Harbor), and of
course a useful CD: the Hypermedia Concepts Fish CD. The only problem I
ran into was that the CDROM-FS must be mounted before Workbench is
loaded, if you want the auto-diskchange feature to work. Everything now
works very well. The slow speed of CD-ROM (150KB/sec) takes some getting
used to since I've grown used to the 1MB/sec speed of my hard drive. But
it is considerably faster than floppies, and far, far more convienent!

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