Re: Read-speed of SCSI CD-rom players

["Jason Whorton" <jason@microxl.com>]

I recently upgraded from 8X to 32X on my PC.  It is more helpful when
installing software.  Unfortunately, this should be of almost no concern to
Apple II users.  The Mac qould be a different story.  Go for as fast as you
can afford if you have any software that runs on a CD.
    On a related note, if someone had a CD-R on a PC or Mac, could they burn
a CD that could be read by an Apple IIe or IIgs?  Can the IIe have a
CD-ROM??

Thank you,
Jason Whorton
www.microxl.com/oldcomputers/main.html


Supertimer wrote in message <19981229033308.13974.00001491@ng110.aol.com>...
>buggie@ben16.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) wrote:
>
>>I've been shopping for a used low-cost SCSI external CD-rom player.  The
>>main variable that affects price is speed: 1x, 2x, 6x, 32x etc.
>>
>>How important would this be for Apple IIgs or for Mac SE or Classic?  I'd
>>expect that the main use would be for reading in the software.  But why
>>would speed matter for that application?
>
>There are those who say that speed does not matter on a IIGS.
>I beg to disagree.
>
>The difference between a 1x and a 2x CD-ROM is VERY
>noticeable on the IIGS.  Sure, the main use would be reading
>in shk files or perhaps DiskQuest or DiskQuest Encyclopedia,
>but can you imagine trying to navigate your hard drive at
>the speed of a UniDisk 3.5?  That's how 1x feels.  I would
>recommend 2x over 1x.