Caddy for one DEC-RDD40 external cdrom unit

From: Carlini, Antonio <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
Date: Wed Oct 24 09:39:43 2001

John Allain [mailto:allain_at_panix.com]
> I have spares for the '42. if they're the same as the '40 you
> can have one. I think they're Very common. I don't think
> I've seen a caddied CDROM drive that Doesn't use this
> type of caddy.

The RRD42 is (IIRC) a Sony unit (possibly
with modified firmware). It takes
a "standard" caddy.

The RRD40 is a much older Philips(?)
CD-ROM (1x) and it takes a caompletely
different form of CD holder (often
referred to as "antlers").

FWIW: the RRD43 is a tray-loader and
the RRD44 is back to a caddy. The
first DEC CDROM drive was the RRD50, which
was essentially a tabletop, caddyless
(flip open the top and load CD)
RRD40 (except, I believe, *slower*!!).

I have at least one RRD40 CD holder,
which I can supply if noone nearer
can dig one up (I'm in the UK).


Antonio
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