[Gllug] How things change

[Ian Norton]

Hehe,

are those the panasonic interface matsushita drives? you dont want to 
know how many of those i had last year, I inherited them so have no idea 
of the cost.

it was kina cool however, that you could run upto 4 of the drives off of 
one interface card (in this case it was a SB16 with cdrom interface) and 
that if you had several copies of one disk you could perform higher 
speed read operations much in the same was as you get when using mirror 
RAID drives. you wouldnt get that much performance above the 2x of the 
drives but it was 'slightly' faster, especially for initial seeks.

Ian

John Winters wrote:

>I'm spending this morning sorting through (and mostly chucking out) old
>filed material.  I've just come across an invoice dated 20/7/1993 for a
>Mitsumi CD-ROM drive.  This was the first affordable (in that it was
>much, much cheaper than any of the existing offerings) CD-ROM drive to
>appear.  Anyone like to hazard a guess as to the price?
>
>Incidentally, I still have the drive and it still works.  It uses its
>own proprietary interface card (not IDE or SCSI) and Linux still
>recognizes and uses it just fine.
>
>John
>
>  
>

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