On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 05:40 PM, (SuperMacs List) wrote:
>
> Having forked over $500 for a 4x2x6 Yamaha CDRW during ancient years
> (it still
> works fine), I was always reluctant to use it as an everyday reader out
> of fear
> that the burner mechanism would prematurely fail. And there is also the
> 8x20
> LaCie CD-R that is serving me well.
> How times have changed....I guess read-only CD drives are not made
> anymore ?
>
IDE ones are, and they're actually quite cheap, last time I looked
they're going for around $30 CDN for a brand like LG. What's even more
amazing is how far down in price the IDE versions of DVD-ROM drives have
fallen, on Computer Row on College Street in Toronto you can get an LG
16X DVD drive (which also doubles as a 48X CD-ROM) for $52 CDN + taxes.
for another $10 you can get the Toshiba version.
Of course, the SCSI versions seem to have at least $100 extra
tacked to them :(
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