CompuServe Messages

John: >Indeed I know of several parallel and serial CD-ROM drives that work fine for data retrieval, not so good for multimedia presentations as these units have an increased amount of "CPU drag" making playback sluggish for multimedia purposes.< Boy, am *I* glad you let me know about that! I've been seriously considering getting a CD-ROM external drive to attach to my wife's laptop, and figured this wouldn't require reconfiguring her computer (she gets all *agita* when I do things like that <g>). >I'd love to get a copy of the article when its published. If its available off a magazine rack, just let me know and I'll check out my local Borders Books when its published.< Well <cough, cough>–it's for USAir Magazine, the in-flight magazine for USAir. Actually, I'm not sure *where* it's available, outside of on USAir flights–but I'll ask my editor about where else it can be gotten, if anywhere. That's why their interest is more to data transmission than to multimedia–most of the readership isn't apt to be designing multimedia presentations on their laptops (or anywhere, probably!)… Tim