Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 13:56:35 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM Message-ID: <199607161756.NAA22133@etinc.com>
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Jason Thorpe writes.... 8>On Tue, 16 Jul 1996 07:55:17 -0700 > "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote: > > > Personally, yes, I wouldn't touch an IDE CDROM with a stick (though > > some of the new 8x drives are kinda tempting) though I still wouldn't > >Why? 8x on a IDE CD-ROM is 8x a "standard" (cough) IDE CD-ROM, which in >my experience, is roughly equivalent to a 4x SCSI CD-ROM :-) > >(Maybe one day, probably far into the future, after we're all dead and >gone, consumers will realize just how much PC hardware blows, and stop >buying things like ... well, PCs :-) > > -- save the ancient forests - http://www.bayarea.net/~thorpej/forest/ -- >Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Yeah, when you're spending taxpayers dollars those high-end 'puters are real nice! :-) With every purchase, a good consumer makes a value judgement. Frankly I get more utility out of 5 PCs than I do with 1 of whatever you recommend... particularly when its my money. IDE drives are just fine and darn convenient, considering all most people do with them is load a distribution or pull something off an archive. And for $65. a piece for a 6X drive they're practically disposable. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX
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