11 Mar
2007
11 Mar
'07
1:55 p.m.
At 12:38 PM -0700 3/11/07, Glen Slick wrote:
On 3/11/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at
aracnet.com> wrote:
The 32x drives are quite nice, I have one in my PWS 433au, that I
really should figure out how to move to my main XP1000 (right now I'm
using the IDE CD-ROM drive it shipped with).
Another Plextor drive to keep an eye out for is the 16x CD-R/RW
drive. I have one that I bought new, and I believe it was the last
of their SCSI CD burners.
My main "floater" drive is an old 4x SCSI CD-ROM that was originally
purchased for my PowerBook 520c. I've not tried it on a PDP-11, but
every other system I've attached it to has liked it. Which reminds
me, I need to find out if my Mom still needs it (it has spent way to
much time on loan to her of late so she can hook it up to the antique
P90 laptop I gave her over 10 years ago and read old CD-ROM's).
Zane
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Cool! is this the Caddy 6x drive? I collect the
Plextor caddy drives
whenever I can find them. I think I'm up to 3 6x drives, and 1 8x
(which is the drive in my PDP-11).
The Plextor PX-6XCS is indeed an external SCSI CD-ROM Caddy 6x drive.
I'll keep my eye out for more of these if find them cheap locally. I
just checked the Plextor manual for the PX-32CSi/e (Caddy) and
PX-32TSi/e (Tray) series and they still have 512-byte Block jumpers.
Those models don't seem to be too hard to find locally. There are
some on Craigslist locally right now.