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6 Feb 2007

 --- Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wr
ote: 
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  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 g ot
...
  a drive at work :)

 In the meanwhile, look towards the bottom of this
 page:

 http://home.claranet.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/sroom.html

 -- 
 Adrian/Witchy
 Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
 Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest priva te
...
  home computer
 collection?

Thanks.

Yeah, that looks about right. So why were the
caddies ditched?? Was it simply cost, or that
the CD drives themselves were improved?

Regards,
Andrew D. Burton
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk