On 6/2/07 21:55, "aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk" <aliensrcooluk at
yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
I remember CD caddies :)
I recall back at secondary school in my first
year there (year 7 for UK'ers), in 1990/1, that
the new computer in the library used CD's
which were in see through plastic.
Essentially the "CD" of the time was like
floppy discs - the writable media (medium?)
was encased in protective plastic shell.
Sounds like the Philips 1x speed CD that was used by DEC as the RRD40. It
took standard CD-ROMs but they were inserted in a plastic shell because the
drive had no tray or any other means of supporting the CD.
My own RRD40 caddies are 250 miles away but I've got a drive at work :)
In the meanwhile, look towards the bottom of this page:
http://home.claranet.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/sroom.html
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Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
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