getting into CD-ROM
You can wait a few more months for something better. Of course, by then
there wiill be something even better available "in a few more months."
For more than 10 years the personal computer industry has always been on
the verge of something better "in a few more months." If I had decided to
wait for that something better 10 years ago I still wouldn't own a computer
today!
For instance, there's lots of messages on this forum about multimedia. I've
looked at the hardware involved (overpriced) and the media (very few disks
available today). It's intellectually interesting but there's nothing in
the multimedia arena today that makes me want to spend my hard-earned
greenbacks. I now have an inexpensive CD-ROM drive that is not multimedia
compatible and it reads every CD-ROM disk that I am the least bit
interested in. I'm satisfied. I may wish to upgrade in a year or two, but
not now.
My advice: decide what you want TODAY, how much you are willing to pay for
it and how much use you can get out of it. Then get it.
– Dick