Philips and auction finds (was: Re: I hate Radio Shack)

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Tue Jun 18 23:55:03 2002

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Jeff Hellige wrote:

> Which model is it? I think the CDD2000 was one of thier first CD-R
> drives. It's a standard HH SCSI drive, unlike older Sony drives that
> were rather large proprietary units. My guess is that they weren't
> quite as fast to release a CD-R to market as they were with CD-ROMs?
> Weren't they one of the original developers of the CD-ROM? I still
> have a CDD2000 as well as continue to use one of their Omniwriter's.

The model printed on the front of the unit is CDD 521, and has a sticker
on the cd tray with the printing 'CDD521 upgraded'. It is an external
drive, and looks very much like a component-style cd player. A sticker on
the rear of the unit states 'Type: CDD521/10', and shows it was made in
Aug 1993.

Philips was indeed the original developer of the compact disc. Going OT a
little again, that is one of the reasons they are currently quite unhappy
with the "copy protected" (defective) cds various record companies are
marketing to unsuspecting consumers.

-Toth
Received on Tue Jun 18 2002 - 23:55:03 BST