[Info-vax] Installed and working

abrsvc dansabrservices at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 20 14:52:05 EDT 2011


On Jul 20, 2:29 pm, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 20, 12:09 pm, CY <christ... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > [...]  Now looking
> > for an RD42 or what they are called but one of those I will buy
> > refurbished, so no help from the forum is needed.
>
>    To use in what?  If you're really looking for an RRD42
> (almost the slowest CD-ROM drive ever made), then I'd say that
> you need help from somewhere.  I'd expect almost any old
> Toshiba SCSI drive to work, and it'd be hard to find one so
> slow as an RRD42.  I believe that an XM3401 (2X?) is the
> oldest CD-ROM drive I have on any of my old junk.
>
> > A cost, a bit under 2000$ a disk but its worth it.
>
>    Yow.  If you didn't lose a decimal point there, then I wish
> that I had your budget.

I probably shouldn't admit this in public, but I have 2 RRD42 drives
as well as 3 of its predecessors.  I even have some of the CD caddies
for the drives.

Dan



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