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From: 75300.1324@COMPUSERVE.COM (Nick Arnett)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Pinhead
Date: 29 Aug 92 20:34:58 GMT
Reply-To: Nick Arnett <75300.1324@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Distribution: alt
Organization: FUNET-NGW

Attn: CDROM-L
                       Subject:
Time:1:23 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          Pinhead
Date:8/29/92
Folks,

Maybe I'm hypersensitive because my company operates forums on
CompuServe, where we expect a certain level of decorum, but I find
John De Armond's name-calling to be completely out of line.  If he
did this in our forum, he'd receive a major reprimand.  We don't
tolerate personal attacks.

I hope that others agree with me and will let him know -- privately,
I hope, rather than on the list, unless there's some CD-ROM
discussion that's part of the message, of course.

Despite his obnoxious behavior, De Armond didn't even answer the main
question, which is whether or not Kodak will license others to
*encode* PhotoCD images, as I've mentioned in a couple of my
postings.  I think others and I made it quite clear that decoding is
supported in a future version of QuickTime and other third-party
software.  Somehow, I managed to write those things without resorting
to name-calling.

I'm an analyst covering this area, among others, and I've had
tremendous exposure to PhotoCD that started even before the public
introduction.  Kodak had me fly to New York to take part in a panel
discussion during the introduction.  And after all that, it sure
seems to me that Kodak is indeed protecting the right to *encode*
PhotoCD images, which is a perfectly valid topic for discussion here.

Nick Arnett
President
Multimedia Computing Corp.
Santa Clara, California
Chief Pinhead, Multimedia Forums on CompuServe
From: cj@pacersoft.com (Christopher R. Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Hitachi CD-ROM
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:06:29 GMT
Organization: Pacer Software
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1

Hitachi CD-ROM

Hi!  I have the exact same setup.  What I did was to call the WyseBBS
to obtain new drivers and MSCDEX, etc.  Their number is 4089224400.
I'll check my stuff at home tonight, but I think its sort of like
this:
config.sys has:
DEVICE=C:\CDROM\AMDEK.SYS /N:1 /D:AMDEKCD
and autoexec.bat has:
MSCDEX /D:AMDEKCD /M:8

For technical assistance call AMDEK Technical Support at 4084352832.

Send me some mail, and we'll share info.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: m14430@mwunix.mitre.org (Lawrence Larson)
Subject: Re: Desktop Library CD-ROM (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:57:59 GMT

>seem to have gone through a reasonable spelling checker. Which convinces me
>that unless one proofreads the whole of a piece of literary item, one cannot
>possibly say e.g. Hardy's Far From the Maddening Crowd contains such and such
                                        ^^^^^^^^^
Proof positive, eh? 8')

-- Larry
From: barrett@server.cs.jhu.edu (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Toshiba 3301 price
Date: 29 Aug 92 18:42:25 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD

In article <15927@star.cs.vu.nl> doorn@cs.vu.nl (Jan Bernard van Doorn) writes:
>Anybody seen a better price on a bare 3301B internal (CD Systems: $365,
>Computer Shopper Aug.)?? Just curious.....

	Are you sure it's the 3301B?  The ad I see (September 1992) says
only "Toshiba SCSI CDROM Internal Drive."  It could be a lower model.

	The September 1992 issue also has an ad from Micro USA (page 645)
listing the 3301 for $369.  But the ad says "no credit cards" and that
they sell "overstock inventory".  So I wonder if a regular advertiser
like CD Systems can afford to sell a 3301 for less.

                                                        Dan

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| University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA  01003  --  barrett@cs.umass.edu |
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Xref: sparky alt.cd-rom:2754 rec.photo:14873
From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,rec.photo
Subject: Irritated at software aspects of Photo-CD
Date: 26 Aug 1992 12:35:57 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

When I first heard of Photo CD, I said "Great!", thinking that the
images would be on disk in a format which is easy to manipulate with
almost any publicly available software.

Instead, I seem to be getting a grimmer picture where Kodak is not
extremely interested in making the file formats etc. public, let alone
gifting a translator to pbm into the public domain.

So far the only software I have heard mentioned has been binaries for
PCs and Macs, and I have no intentions of ever using a PC or a Mac :-).

So -- do you know different?  Is it going to be the case that C source
to decode the files is going to be freely available?  Is there going
to be anything painful about working with photo CD from Unix?

(I, for one, will strictly avoid Photo CD if the answers to the
above questions is No).

        -ans.
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller)
Subject: Re: Desktop Library CD-ROM (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 00:23:12 GMT

silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert) wrote:
>Tony gave this one five stars, but I think a few caveats are in order.
>Obviously all of this material for $40 is a great buy, but it is a bit
>of a shock to realize how little of the world's literature you get on a
>CD.  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein is here, but none of her
[...]
>I hope that it will be possible in the near future to get more
>comprehensive collections for this very low price.  As it stands, this
>would not be a terribly good choice for a school library because the
>selection is pretty much random and does not reflect a reasoned
>choice of texts.  Sure it's a good deal, but it is frustrating to look
>for texts in it and see how random the selection is.

I don't mean to be harsh, but before you scare people away, realize the issues
involved in making a CD-ROM like this.

First, there's physical size.  The CD has, to my recollection, just over 500Mb
on it.  Figuring that the ZIPped mirror of the main directories has the
identical files compressed to 50% of their original size (quite a generous
guess with pure text files of their size) that still leaves around 350Mb of
texts.

I don't know about you, but 350Mb of texts for $40 seems a pretty darn good
buy to me.

In addition, before a disk like this can be made, Walnut Creek has to find
public-domain copies of the files.  Public domain works printed in
copyrighted publications can't just be copied willy-nilly.  And if
WC went through the legal channels that would be required to get some of
these works, I can guarantee you they wouldn't be available for $40.

Now, while your point is well taken, I think it's a little unfair to
call them caveats for a potential buyer of the CD.

While on the subject of this CD, however, it would be nice if someone
could find a sed/awk/perl or whatever script to remova all the formatting
from the plain text files, and put them into a format suitible for reading
into a word-processor or DTP program.

-Dave

PS: again, no affiliation with WC except a satisfied customer.



-- 
David Giller, Box 134 | Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light
Occidental College    | bulb?  A: Three.  One to replace the bulb, and two to
1600 Campus Road      | fend off all the Californians trying to share the
Los Angeles, CA 90041 | experience. ---------------------------rafetmad@oxy.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: nbixby@EIS.CALSTATE.EDU ("Norman E. Bixby")
Subject: signoff
Reply-To: "Norman E. Bixby" <nbixby@EIS.CALSTATE.EDU>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:08:49 GMT

sent signoff request to listserv@uccvma.bitnet...
return mail "no entry"  I do Subscribe.
Please SIGNOFF CDROM-L Norm Bixby <nbixby@eis.calstate.edu>
From: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Disney Snd Crd
Date: 25 Aug 92 08:50:00 GMT
Reply-To: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193

JM>I called the Disney BBS, and downloaded their Windows 3.1 sound
JM>source driver, and decided to try installing MUMG through windows.
JM>It worked!  However, Windows seems to slow down the CD-ROM drive
JM>I have (Toshiba 3301B - 325ms) and consequently the animation and 
JM>sound with intermittent pauses.  Really annoying.  I've experienced
JM>a couple of glitched parts with it during the course of play.
JM>
JM>I would still like to get it to run via DOS, but the Sierra On-Line
JM>folks didn't help much.  I'm going to send my disk in and get a
JM>replacement disk.  They seem to think it will help.  I don't think
JM>so, since it seems to be a driver problem.  

It sounds like a driver or controller problem. You need to have a current
driver, that will support at least 64K cache buffering, to play such 
disks. If an upgraded driver doesn't help, I'd look into a newer 
controller. 

---
 . KingQWK 1.05 .
From: jms@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Pioneer DRM-600
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:11:00 GMT
Reply-To: jms@arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department
X-Lunar-Date: 4 days, 14 hours, 24 minutes since the new moon
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

We think that we have an application for the DRM-6000---an environment
where one disk, at most, will be in use, and not very often at that. This
brings out two questions:

1- where can I get one?  I have seen one vendor in the back of MacWeek, but
I'd like to have multiple bids.

2- I want to put it on a VAX/VMS system, which I believe may require the
latest greatest firmware and perhaps a tech support call.  Is there a
Pioneer support line?

Thanks for your answers!

Joel M Snyder, 1103 E Spring Street, Tucson, AZ, 85719 
Phone: 602.882.4094 (voice) .4095 (FAX) .4093 (data)
BITNET: jms@Arizona  Internet: jms@arizona.edu  SPAN: 47541::telcom::jms
It's NO USE..  I've gone to "CLUB MED"!!
From: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Pioneer DRM600
Date: 30 Aug 92 08:42:00 GMT
Reply-To: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193

DC>At Florida State, we have     very heavy usage of our SilverPlatter
DC>Medline, and our Pioneer DRM600 6-disc-in-a-magazine/cartridge worked
DC>very well until the warranty ran out. The magazine wouldn't auto-eject
DC>and we had to send it to Pioneer with one disc half-way in the
DC>magazine and half-way in the drive's reading mechanism.  

We did extensive testing of the first version of this drive, and found
them to have long-term reliability problems, especially with the changer
mechanism. They also have problems with dust. Besides all of that, the
delay when changing drives is quite annoying if more than two people are
using the system on a network. There are ways to mitigate this last problem,
but the reliability problem is still probably there.

You should consider going to a multi-drive stacked unit, either from
Toshiba or Hitachi. These are the most reliable, highest performance, 
units now available. The Toshiba units are SCSI, and you can buy them from
either OnLine Computer Systems in Germantown, MD, or, I believe, from
Marshall Electronics. The Hitachi units are non-SCSI and harder to obtain, 
but you can call 1-800-HITACHI and ask about them. Both are expensive
(at least $2500 for four drives), but for a high-cost database service,
well worth it.

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 . KingQWK 1.05 .
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Saturday, 29 Aug 1992 22:46:50 CDT
From: <U18689@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Question about CD Speedway

  Has anyone used CD Speedway from Tiger Software?  It claims to speed up
 your CD drive by up to 1000% faster, is this true?
Xref: sparky alt.cd-rom:2921 comp.periphs.scsi:4352
From: marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SCSI Formatting (was Re: CD-Rom & Adaptec 1542b)
Date: 3 Sep 92 03:40:26 GMT
Followup-To: alt.cd-rom
Organization: mgse

In article <1992Aug24.193553.23280@engage.pko.dec.com> ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com writes:
| 
| > In article <sb-n!lk@dixie.com>, jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
| > From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
| > Subject: Re: CD-Rom & Adaptec 1542b
| > Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 02:07:57 GMT+5:00
| 
| > >Why "naturally"?  SCSI drives are delivered logically error free, there is
| > >normally no reason to ever format them.  The format utilities are provided
| > >for *unusual* circumstances.
| 
| > >Yes.  I'll see if I can make it clear to you as well.  Formatting, as I
| > >pointed out, is an unusual thing to do to a SCSI drive.  Most of the SCSI
| > >drives (well, at least the older ones) I have encountered required some
| > >manual twiddling if you really wanted to format them.  
| 
| > Not at all.  Drives must be formatted on the Adaptec controller or else
| > they will not boot.  Apparently adaptec does something different with
| > the boot track.  Some drives, such as the Segate ST-296, come with only
| > a mini-format and a dos area that contains the utilities to do
| > a full format on a Segate controller.  I've gotten bitten several times
| > trying to move drives that functioned on another brand of controller
| > over to Adaptec.  The file system, if it exists will be recognized but
| > the boot track will not.  I suspect it has something to do with the 
| > track/head translation scheme but I'm not sure.
| 
| > Formatting in the PC environment is definitely NOT an unusual requirement.
| 
| > John
| 
| Hold it, let's make sure everyone is speaking about the same terms.
| 
| John, you are speaking of high leve formatting.  Dag was speaking about
| LOW-LEVEL formatting, which is entirely different.  SCSI drives should not need
| to be low-level formatted, as Dag pointed out.  However they most certainly
| need to be formatted by your OS, whether it's DOS FORMAT or Unix {mk,new}fs.

I have read before that you should low-level format your drives every year
or two to rejuvenate those part of the disk that are not being constantly 
re-written (like the address marks??)  The idea being, in part, that when 
the drive is powered up or down, there is a surge of juice thru the heads
and because the magnetic charge is not permenant. I (superstitiously) agree
with that and do it on small hard drives, sometimes. I have not done it 
on my main system recently, too much trouble backing up everything twice
and then reinstalling.

Any comments???

Mark Seiffert

| 
| Eric
| -- 
| John De Armond, WD4OQC               |Interested in high performance mobility?  
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From: pustule@cats.ucsc.edu (Thaddeus H. Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Hitachi CD-ROM
Date: 1 Sep 1992 04:14:58 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


Hi there.  I have a Hitachi CD-ROM drive, which is kind
of old.  It actually has the Amdek label, which is the
Laserdrive-1.  I have mscdex221 and all of the hitachi
drivers for it, but I don't know what any of the 
installation options are.  For instance, I don't know
what should go after the device = hitachi.sys statement
in the config.sys.  If anyone can point me to some info,
or send me there startup information that works, it would
be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks.

--
Thad

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: rlw@atlanta.dg.com (Richard Wright)
Subject: Street Atlas CD-ROM 
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 13:29:59 GMT
Organization: Data General Corp. Performance Services, Atlanta, GA

Has anyone had experience with the CD-ROM package called Street Atlas USA?
I have read some tantalizing short reviews and this sounds like a good
addition to my newly-established CD-ROM collection. Some of my questions:
  * Does it run under Win3.1?
  * Does it have a print capability? (laserjet prefered)
  * Is it fairly complete? What sort of streets do not appear?
  * How recent is the data?

Any help will be appreciated. 

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From: ebupaf@ebu.ericsson.se (Pat Fargo 6266)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Soundblaster Multi-media package
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:48:35 GMT
Reply-To: ebupaf@ebu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Business Communications, Inc.

I have the package you mention. Overall, I am very
pleased. The Bookshelf has everything my little
eight year old needs to keep her busy. Atlas, Encyclopedia,
etc. The SoundBlaster is great. She puts on music on the
cd, while she plays some games. From reading in this group,
there seems to be two packages with different interfaces.
The Multimedia (Microsoft), and another Pro sound interface.
I have also purchased the Microsoft Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony package, and this too is outstanding. Especially,
if you already liked him. Any other questions, please post.

---
Patrick A. Fargo		Ericsson Business Communication
				Anaheim, California
From: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM (Gess Shankar)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: MSCDEX HELP PLEASE!!!
Date: 3 Sep 92 11:39:53 GMT
Organization: Knowledge Exchange, GA, US of A

pauls@trsvax.tandy.com writes:

> 
> Well, if you mean invoke it:
> 
> mscdex /{drive letter}:{drive handle}
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> where {drive letter} is the letter of the next available drive (usually D)
> 
> and {drive handle} is the "mounting name" you indicated in your
> drive-dependent driver (usually in config.sys).
> 
While the above is substantially correct, it is misleading. The 'D' in
/D:{name} is a switch designator and NOT drive letter. Probably stands
for Device Name OR Driver Name. The logical name assigned by the driver is
used by MSCDEX to hook into the driver. If one has more than one driver, you
will have the line as:

MSCDEX /D:CDROM01 /D:CDROM02 /D:CDROM03 etc...

> The default {drive handle} is usually mscd001. Therefoe, the invocation
> would be:
> 
> mscdex /d:mscd001
> 
> assuming in config.sys you had something like:
> 
> device=cdrom.drv d:mscd001
> 
> note that the drive letter is not the drive letter mscdex will use, it will
> "assign" the logical drive to the next letter available. In other words, if
> you already have c,d,e in a hard drive, the cdrom then becomes f: EVEN
> THOUGH you 'told' mscdex to use d: (why this is, I have no idea, it just
> works).

It just works, because d: has nothing to do with drive letter. If one wishes
to assign a specific drive letter rather than the next available letter,
the switch /L:x will be used.  So if you have A,B,C drives, MSCDEX will
assign D: to CDrom. If /L:F is specified, then cdrom becoms F:

GeSS
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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: smb@col.hp.com (Sam Bauer)
Subject: >>CD-ROM Game For Sale: Sherlock Holmes
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:13:34 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

CD-ROM PC GAME FOR SALE	

****** Sherlock Holmes - Consulting Detective  (CD-ROM) *******
by ICOM

Requires: CD-ROM Drive (150KB Data Transfer Rate. Continuous Read)
	  12Mhz/286 or better IBM PC or Compatable
	  640K RAM - (490K available).
	  Dos 3.3 or higher
	  Sound Blaster/Media Vision Audio Card or compatable.

This game has spectacular Audio and Video, over 90 minutes of full motion
video.  The three cases are well done and the acting is good.  It reminds
me of a BBC production.  Gameplay and interface is also quite good.  
Unfortunately, re-visiting characters later in the game when more clues 
have been uncovered does not yield new information, they just tell you the
same thing.  The game is also fairly short.  Expect to spend 2 to 5 hours
on each case.  You will have to interview many people, consult your files,
London Library, even read the Times.  Replay is encouraged through a scoring
mechanism that reports how well you did compared to Holmes' best possible 
score.  I found that replay goes very quickly and is fun but doesn't succeed
in extending the games "play life" much.  What does lend to the replay value
is the shear impressiveness of the video and audio.  This game was made for
CD-ROM, and uses around 300 Meg of storage.  Game save is possible to a floppy
or hard disk.

The game comes on a CD in a standard plastic CD "jewel box", with all 
documentation (including the printed copy of the on-line London Times 
editions needed to solve the cases), and registration.  Also comes in the
original cardboard CD box.   I am the original owner.

I will sell the game for $42.

I will pay shipping.  It will be mailed inside a box with packing.

EMail at smb@col.hp.com or call 1-719-531-4460 (days).

Sam Bauer, Hewlett Packard CTD, Colo. Sprgs CO.
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