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#118703-
Sell me a CD-R!
Message #118727
>>My company has three CDROM titles now, and we're about to make a fourth.>The discs often contain Unix files, so I'll produce a Rock Ridge- compatible ISO image file with some software under Linux, working from a hard disk image. I'll e that ISO image to a CD-R.
>> Do you know what card they use and whether they are available other than from JVC?.>Also do you have the Plasmon BBS number? Thanks.
The Philips 522 is arguably the best recorder available in terms of reliability, compatibility (of media and software), ease of use (huge expandable buffer for use with just about any hard drive), and price/performance. I would recommend it above all others for the data archiving applications you described. We carry…
>> There is a software only solution by 4B technologies that does work with the philips drives.
>> Such services cost in the area of $30.
Plasmon has some very rough, unsupported code on their BBS which illustrates the capabilities of parallel recording to their drives. The code only works with the Plasmon drives, however. As I said, it is also very raw. You would want to put a pretty interface on it and add some…
>> If you are the handy man type- there is one brand of standard off the shelf color inkjet printer you can buy.
>> True, but then you lose that additional potential platform.
>> The Kodak players are fairly "dumb,"
>> That may change things and perhaps we will have more PortfolioCD creating software on the market next year.
Thanks for the suggestion. My point about the networking was that the client with the Amiga is not in a situation to conveniently network their computer. Jeff
#Backup from Amiga / Rest
Message #130326
I am looking for a way to transfer large amounts of data (100+ MB) from the Amiga to either an IBM PC compatible or Macintosh. The Amiga and the other two machines are at different locations, so I cannot network them. The large amount of data precludes uploading the files.…