This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Can you tell me good sources for the NEC CDR-74-1 bundle? For some reason I thought all the bundles were with internal drives, but the NEC 74 is what I want. Does it come with a SCSI controller? I already have an ADP1542B. Would $799 be a good price for…
I believe Intel invented the term vaporware (or certainly used it more than Microsoft!) They put out an ad for one of the early Above boards that stated something like "so advanced it even runs vaporware" showing (I think) OS/2. Bill Gates got upset, called Intel, and the ad got…
Advice on CDROM
Message #43908
I'm thinking of buying a new CDROM for multimedia. I have an old Sony internal, but it doesn't have audio and it has its own interface board – I'd prefer SCSI. I'm torn between buying a high performance device like the NEC external 84, or whether to go for a…
NEC890 XL
Message #13388
Thanks for the explanation Stephen. I got a less complete version recently from a product manager at Tektronix (manager of the Color printers) who made similar comments about 'theoretically'. By the way, my friend decided not to buy the XL after discovering that it was not yet truly available. So…