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

[Niall Young]

> 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 ?

Why not a DVD-RAM :-)  5.2G re-writable like a disk, works fine under Linux
(so usenet says)...  bit expensive still, but give it 2-3 months...

Niall Young
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