[plug] ZIP/JAZ/SPARQ -- consider CD-R

[Gavin Tweedie]

Can anyone suggest any suppliers (wholesale) or retailers in perth who
have cheap, cd writers which go ok with linux?
cheap being the key thing here, part time work doesnt leave much money to
play with...especially when you want a new cpu, ram, monitor.... :)


Gavin

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Nicholas Yue wrote:

> Mike Holland wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > But consider getting a CD-writer instead.
> > The media cost is a couple of orders of magnitude lower, which
> > widens their usefulness.
> > Writing may be slow, but reading is much faster these days.
> > Everybody can read CDs.
> > They are write-once, but multi-session, and at $2.50, who cares?
> 
> 	What about CD-RW, can we pop in a CD-RW disc into a CD writer ? Or do
> we need a special CD-RW writer ?
> 
> Cheers
> -- 
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