At 9:00 AM 11/10/97, Mel Patrick wrote:
>
> I think my next "fry-bee" is going to be a cdrom burner. Course they are
> prone to scratches and stuff but its the only challenge left...;-)
>
> Mel Patrick - theWabbitGuy - mel@...
> http://www.intergate.bc.ca/business/mel

Recent posts on ZIP drive hold me off from buying several ZIP drives for
my research group members.

Michael mentioned that the up front saving is more obvious the the technical
disadvantages. I still have a Beta VCR at home and two VHSs as well.

(1) In Japan, 3.5'MO seems to be most popular as removable storage, I don't
know why. Most recent drive can read/write 128MB/230MB/540MB/640MB media.
The price of the drive c.a. $5~600.
I use 2 JAZ drives, but one drive broke after 9 months. It's prone to crash
mechanically during you push a disk into the drive.

(2) A CD-ROM burner is also a good idea: Drive is still expensive c.a.
$800~1000,
but media is cheap, $4~5 per disk (for 640MB). Double/quadro speed drive can
burn a disk within 30/25 min. Still expensive, but using CD-RW you can
rewrite/add
data to CD-RW 1000 times before you decide to make a permanent(not forever) one.
Many people own CD reader lately.

(3) They sell now 2GB MO (not DVD) in Japan, but an engineer says it's a
5-year-old
technology, i.e. they could have made it a few years back but they didn't want
to spoil the market.

kiyo