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

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

: 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.

Tulin sold floptical drives, which track optically and read/write magnetically.
There's also magneto optical, which uses a laser to heat the surface of the
optical disk so that the magnetic head can write data. Neither are strictly
optical.

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

Well my magneto optical drive won't work on my IIgs.

: 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?

Here's the deal: you can take the word of someone who owns a CD-RW and has
used it, or you can sit around and invent stuff that you think it is/is not
and how well it "theoretically" will work.
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