#'Smart & Friendly' CDROM
Has anyone heard of (or even better, used) a "Smart & Friendly" brand
CD-ROM drive? Telemart, the mail-order outfit has been advertising these,
and a salesman there claimed that the drive is the new Toshiba double-speed
unit. He faxed me the data sheet on it, and it appears to be faster than
the NEC CDR-74 unit — 200 msec ave access (1/3 stroke), 360 KBytes/sec,
256K buffer, and 4x oversampling on the audio outs.
The bad news is that Telemart allow *NO* hardware returns, so if you don't
like the unit, you probably gotta deal with the manufacturer (read
"importer") of the drive itself. They don't have a price yet…
– Barry