26 Mar
2004
26 Mar
'04
3:25 a.m.
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, John Allain wrote:
Yes, that was
a Philips CM105/110. I have two.
the first
CD-ROM sold by DEC was RRD40 and was
actually a Philips drive, wasn't it?
DEC _sold_ a Phillips CDROM drive as far back as 1985/6.
I'm pretty sure that that first product preceeded even the RRD40. My pocket guide to DEC history says this:
"DEC sells storage business (incl. DLT) to Quantum."
They indeed sold
the disks *and* tape (dlt) biz. Dunno if they
sold the disks to Quantum as well as they did the tapes.
Fred
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