This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Ernie, I think some of the products currently used to make CD-Rs have a long ways to go before they're what I'd call a good software product. I think some of them have come a long ways and are acceptable products now. Compared to what we had just a couple…
Jim, I wouldn't say the guy who told me is right or wrong. I don't know. He does work in computers often and generally knows what he's talking about. I asked him if the unit was a multi-disc unit and he said "No, but I don't know the model number".…
Kathy, Thanks for the info. Guess we just haven't run into that yet. Jerry
Pioneer 600kb trans.
Message #43943
I just heard about a new CD-Rom drive from Pioneer with a 280 ms access time and 600 kb transfer rate. Price is around $650 for an external drive. Can anyone tell me anything about this drive such as model number, is it shipping, where can I order it? Jerry
Ernest, I'm not calling anyone Dumbo. Far from it. What my experience has been is that about half of what people tell you is correct. Some of the folks who "helped" me gather my information gave me "facts" that turned out to be far from truth, even impossible. Of course…
Paul, Humm, the replicators are taking the CD-R to tape, then making the master. Interesting. I haven't heard of our replicator doing that but then I've never asked. I do know they haven't been charging our customers for it if they are doing the dual conversion. I suppose that's one…
Paul, Before you make the jump you need to think about the cost of producing the one-offs yourself (universities do think of these things don't they ). It may well be cheaper for you to have a tape produced then have someone else produce the one-off for you. It saves…
Good question Kathy. I started to respond and started wondering the same thing. Like you, I've put a lot of work and research into putting together my system and don't know that I want to give away all my efforts that easily. Jerry
Dick, I'll get a response off to you via E-Mail today. Jerry Warner CD Solutions, Inc.
Mike, We'd be happy to help with your vidoe project to CD-Rom. If you'll E-Mail my your address and phone we can go from there. Is it 90 min when compressed or uncompressed? What media is it on now? Jerry Warner CD Solutions, Inc.
Chris, I noted your name, number, etc. Next time our salesman talks with the customer we'll see how interested they really are in following thru on this. Where is 612 area code? Isn't that south Indiana? Jerry
Chris, Actually our job is to burn CD-Rs. We got involved in this Unix puzzle when a customer said they want a set of CD-Rs that will contain a single data base and will be accessed from a Unix system. Having never worked in a Unix system I came here…
#How do I make CD-ROM?
Message #43191
John, Using CD-ROM to distribute software is easy and has several advantages that you may not see at first. 1) It's currently the "in" thing to do and makes your company appear more progressive. 2) It's cheaper to mail a CD-Rom than it is to mail several floppy disk and…
Kathy, "We" is the manufacturing house where CD Solutions sends our small to med. sized orders. There is no min. order quantity. Jerry
Indeed there are products as you inquired. We make CD-ROMs for our customers but we aren't involved in the production of the data for that CD-ROM. I suggest you contact Rich Bowers on this forum as he is very current on this type of request. You can contact Rich at…
Kathy, So you've got a 200 min. order? That can still make for a _lot_ of CD-R's for small orders. We don't have that min. order. I'm surprised those are still used. Jerry
Tom, As Rich mentioned, there are dozens of uses for CD-ROM recordable systems. CD-ROM is the fastest growing area of computers today. If you'd like information on purchasing a system, e-mail me your phone number or address and I'll get some info off to you. Jerry Warner, CD Solutions, Inc.
Kathy, Sorry about butting in here. Did I read your message right that you've got a 500 min. order for CD-ROMs at the duplication house? I'm sure I misunderstood as that isn't true. Perhaps my entering the middle of this thread I missed something. Jerry
ROFL!!! Actually it was my brother who introduced me to the Amiga. He bought a 500 for my mother. Later her bought her a 2000? (right model?) and I got the 500. I haven't been able to aford to keep up with the software so for the most part my…
Gary, You could make the comparison between a very slow hard disk and a cd-rom and should get a pretty good idea. If you'd like to see exactly how it will perform before you send it for duplication, I suggest getting a single copy made to evaluate first. E-Mail me…
Nimbus does have a cd-rom engine for sale. Cost is pretty high so it knocks out smaller operators. As far as testing goes, it doesn't cost that much to have a single copy made for testing purposes. Of course a one off shop can do this cheaper than Nimbus. Let…
Frank, If I read her request right she only wanted a few copies. For that sized quantity she can get them burned from several venders for much less than the amount you quoted. Jerry
Ernie, A friend of mine just moved back to OH from Tempe, AZ. Kind of far for me to drive though. Thanks for the suggestion. Now if I can find a local dealer.. Jerry
Dan, Thanks for an informative reply. Well, I'm off….. "Here dealer, dealer, dealer" Jerry
Torsten, Yes I installed the new bios so I can work with the larger than 1 GB drive. Seems to work very well now that all the terminators are in the right place and the SCSI id on the drive was changed. The only quark I notice now is that…
Albert, I'm looking to add an external CD player onto one of my systems. I'd like it to be pretty good but I'm not prepared to pay out the cash for the _best_. It's been suggested I look at an NEC 74 at Sam's Wholesale club ($375? and includes sound…
Steve, Actually I figured out the problems before I read your message. The first problem was that the terminators were still installed on the Adaptec card which gave three terminators instead of two (which stopped the SCSISCAN from finding the CDD 521). The second problem was the ID of the…
Kevin, Yes, you'll need to pull the internal terminators off the CDD 521. The external work much better. Seems internal termination just hasn't gotten to be what it should be yet. Jerry
Adaptec 1542b & SCSI
Message #37251
I have an Adaptec 1542b SCSI card running with an IDE drive card and a 1.3 gig SCSI hard disk on a 486 50. I've told setup that I don't have any hard disk so that the Adaptec card will control the drive. My problem is that when booting I…
Jim, If you do pull it out. Place it in an envelope inside the computer case. When you need it you shouldn't have to look far to find it. Jerry
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SCSI CD-ROM and QEMM
Message #36577
David, I see what you're talking about. SideKick does the same thing (takes more memory to load then shrinks). I'll try loading the MSCDEX file second and see if I can fit it in. If not, I'll follow your suggestion on the /e switch. I don't remember seeing a stealth/squeeze…
Rich, Great sermon. I use both DOS and Macintosh. I got my first Mac in 1984 for the reasons you've covered in the sermon. The hardest part was talking with DOS heads who felt the Mac was only a toy. The fact I still use a DOS machine seemed to…
Things are never this bad in the Macintosh world Jerry
Lisa, How big a job are you willing to take on? We've been talking with a large firm who has an interest in putting several repair/referance books onto CD-ROM. We can handle the CD-ROM part without a problem but we have concerns about getting thier hard copy into the computer…
SCSI CD-ROM and QEMM
Message #35818
David, I also use QEMM and have trouble loading hi the driver for the cd-rom (the MSCDEX file). I've got enough RAM but always get an error message that it couldn't be loaded hi due to lack of memory. I've checked my regions and everything looks good. In addition, when…
#new to making cds
Message #31667
I'm thinking about producing cdrom disks and want opinions and comments. My plan is to put large reference manuals on disk and use hypertext to make it usefull. Anyone who has some experience here they'd be willing to share? Jerry
Don, Just "hddisk"? No extension? I have a program called hddisk that works as an install program but that's the only thing I see without the extension. I haven't figured out how I'm going to get this file copied over to the Amiga yet anyway as she doesn't have a…
Thanks Betty, Now all I need to do is figure out how to get a copy over to the Amiga. I've got IBM's and Mac's. She's got the Amiga and no communication software for it. She's got a PC bridge board but I don't think it does me any good…
Don, Thanks! I haven't looked in the expansion directory. My manual says it should be in the DEVS directory and I looked there in every floppy she has (about 50 of them) and couldn't find a copy. I'll look in the expansion directory later today. Jerry
Don, Thanks for the response. I haven't looked in the Expansion directory as her manual says it will be in the DEVS directory. She only has about 50 floppies and I looked in all of them. I have the HD.info file. It's only the hddisk.device file that I'm missing.
#HELP with HD file
Message #94066
I need help. My mother has an Amiga 2000 with an internal hard disk and the system doesn't log it on any longer. The system worked fine until one day… poof! It was gone. She has a PC bridge board and expanded memory. I've looked and I can't find a…
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