> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of Tony Duell
> Sent: 29 January 2003 00:48
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Free stuff
>
>
> [Mitsumi CD ROM drives]
>
> > > Those were very common about 5 years ago... I guess there are plenty
> > > still around.
> >
> > 5 years ago? I think not :) In 1998 severalteen speed IDE CDs
> were the norm,
>
> 5 years ago (well, OK, middle of 1997) was when I finished my last job,
> in major UK University. I am _sure_ of this because there's an HPCC
> conference every 5 years...
>
> Many of the 'public access' machines in the university terminal rooms had
> this sort of CD-ROM drive. They certainly weren't new, or the 'latest
> thing', but they were still in use.
Aye, I can see them still in places like that where they're not used too
much, and those beasts aren't going to physically break easily. Plus, you
can stand a mug of coffee on them :)
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Received on Wed Jan 29 2003 - 22:40:43 GMT