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.
I suppose I was at college about that time, and we had one system in the
entire place with a CDROM attached.
We were pretty much all on Apple equipment (a few stray Pluses, but mainly LC
II and III machines), but the CDROM machine was a Goldstar PC - I don't recall
the name of the CDROM unit though, which was an external caddy-based type.
There was still a Domesday system [1] around, incidentally (the college
historically had done a lot of user testing for Acorn), plus my IBM PC and XT
came from there when I unearthed them in a cupboard.
[1] I'd forgotten about that; I should give them a prod and see what happened
to it...
cheers
Jules