Re: CDR's & MP3 for GS???

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dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

>Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:
>
>> CD-RW only differs from plain CD-R in that you can erase the discs and reuse
>> 'em. There is nothing different in the way you write to 'em. You get one
>> shot and if you flub it up, you have to erase the disc and try again.
>
>Perhaps they should have been called CD-EPROM.  :-)
>
>I was under the impression that CD-RW could be treated like a slow hard
>drive, but obviously that is wrong.  I've yet to encounter one.

I was thumbing through an old issue of InCider when I came across
a review of a Tulin optical drive.  Tulin sold it for the IIGS as well
as other computers.  On the IIGS it required a RamFast card, but it
worked just fine on the IIGS.

I thought optical drives were the precursors to CD-RW.

If an optical drive can work on the IIGS, wouldn't a CD-RW
theoretically work?

If not, it must be the the baggage that has been carried over from
the old CD-ROM/audio CD recording formats that require the
computer to jump through a lot of hoops.  Still, if they can make
stand alone audio CD recorders (Phillips, etc.), why can't they
make one (stand alone with CPU in drive) for data CDs?