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From: re... Alireza Vali
Date: Tue, 19 May 1992 13:07

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In article <57...@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5...@prism.gatech.EDU (William Dennis Herrin) writes:
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>  Yep. EB here in Atlanta has it also. And, unless I'm mistaken, some game
>machine out there has a CD Rom drive for it now that only costs around $150.
>It'll only be a matter of time before someone finds a way to make IBM CDRom
>drives cheaper too.

In a mail order catalog, I saw a CD-ROM drive for the PC priced ad $199+S/H.
I don't think I've seen it any lower.  The brand was BSR (I think) and the
mail order company was DAK.  The drive has a verly slow (800 ms) access time,
but I suppose if a CD-ROM drive can be cached, it won't matter much.  I'm 
seriously considering getting one of those, so if anyone bought one of those,
I would appreciate some feedback on their experience with it.

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