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Thanks for your reply. Do you have an address or telephone number for CD Associates. Computer Select does not have any reference to them. Thanks again, Robert
I was interested to see your message about the life of gold and green discs. What equipment do you use to test degradation of CD-R discs? Do you have a method of checking the reflectivity of the discs, or are you just looking at digital effects like raw error rates?…
From: Robert Wilkinson CDROM Forum · DOS, Windows, OS/2 July 9, 1993 12:20 PM
If you are interested in the ultimate speed of display then you want to make sure that there is the least possible operating system between your application and the display hardware. If you are in a DOS world it is quite acceptable to take over the whole screen and write…
Microsoft's Multimedia Beethoven has Red Book Audio. This means that you need to connect the earphone output of your external drive to a suitable input of your sound card. You can get a suitable cable from Radio Shack. I use a Sound Blaster Pro card, and I connect into the…
From: Robert Wilkinson CDROM Forum · General June 7, 1993 10:58 AM
We have bought some Talon 200 drives, and they are actually Texel 5024 drives ( or 3024 if you get an internal drive ). In general they have worked very well but currently we have a problem with the drives that have ROM version 1.09. Tech support says that version…
#41442 Clintonnomics Message #41607
From: Robert Wilkinson CDROM Forum · General March 1, 1993 10:49 PM
I agree. There will be many who will wish they were back in the days of R.R. Why bother to save when we can borrow, and even better, why not borrow more if we don't have to pay it back. Our kids will do it for us. Who wants to…
From: Robert Wilkinson CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware January 30, 1993 8:00 PM
If you read my last message you will know that I cannot get a Texel 5024 to work with a Trantor 130B card. So I bought a Future Domain Card. Same problem. My 486 DOS clone will recognise the E: drive ( CD ROM ), will do a directory, but…
From: Robert Wilkinson CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware January 30, 1993 7:59 PM
I purchased a Talon TA200, alias Texel 5024, with a Trantor T130B card. When installed in my 486 DOS clone I found that it would not work. I could get it installed as drive E:. I could copy a small file from E: to a hard disk. If I tried…
INP/OUT Message #3569
From: Robert Wilkinson MS BASIC Forum · Visual Basic October 17, 1991 11:00 AM
We had a similar problem where we wanted precise control over I/O events. In our case we had up to eight serial ports. Our solution was to use an intelligent front end processor, actually a Digiboard. We then did some custom programming for the digiboard so that all the interupt…