Re: 2 New IIGS CD-ROMs -- And more on the way! :)

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <32014078.440C@eds.com>, EDavis <LNUSMNF.EDAVIS02@eds.com> wrote:

>This is addressed to both Jim and Joe...
>
>I still run my IIgs nearly every day, but I am of the opinion that the 
>addition of a CD-ROM drive for my gs would not be a very good investment. 

I have never even considered buying a CD-ROM drive for my IIgs.  There
simply aren't enough disks available to justify it.

I do own one Apple II CD-ROM: the System 6 Golden Master.

To access it, I borrowed a CD-ROM drive from a friend, and copied the
useful stuff to a hard drive partition.

I now have a more convenient solution: my new PowerMac has an internal
CD-ROM drive, and it is possible to access this over AppleTalk.  It
doesn't provide access to the ProDOS partitions on the CD-ROM (it might if
there was no HFS partition on the disk), but this is not a problem for the
one CD I want to access.

On occasion, I've had a Mac here with an external CD-ROM drive.  For those
occasions, I moved the drive over to the IIgs when I had need for it.

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David Empson
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