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#Hissing from my CD-ROM

    14-May-92 20:15:58
Sb: #Hissing from my CD-ROM
Fm: Daniel G Mintz 70322,1065
To: all
I have an old Hitachi drive (actually an Amdek), which eventually I will replace with a MPC compliant something or other. It sat around for a few years until I got a fast enough PC that booted through the MSCDEX stuff in less than a lifetime and now I use it for data access of some CD-ROM based files and even though it is five years old it works pretty well. I noticed when I put an audio CD on it and play music (listening through headphones), it works fine for around an hour and then increasing amounts of hiss and pop start occuring. I have the feeling that it needs repair of some sort and that the repair would be more expensive than it is worth. Any comments?? – Dan