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#Writing to CD

    08-Jun-93 00:43:05
Sb: #Writing to CD
Fm: Sean Straw 72210,521
To: Steve McDonnell 76247,1156
(I've read several of the other replies already, but I wanted to make sure to reply directly to you). You can contact Apple directly, and for about 5K get a Sony or a Phillips unit (both are capable of writing 63 (~550MB) and 74 (~650) minute discs). Sony charges about 2K for their software for the Mac, dunno about Phillips (which I do know is supported by Topix). Both units are 2x speed. Funny thing is, I don't do Mac. I use a Sony on a PC system (under DOS, not Windows, BTW). Since the drive is a SCSI device, you can plug a Mac formatted volume into the chain, and tell the premastering software to get the data (and how much, say "100MB" or "650MB") from the attached Macintosh volume, and away it goes. I doubt it works the other way (Macs writing PC CD-ROMs). You might want to consider that when looking into a drive if you ever intend on doing other platforms.