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Posted by littlejoeflub on 10/21/05 23:55
Goro wrote:
> Dennis Q. Wilson wrote:
> > Or will they be "standalone" like CDs and DVDs?
>
> I'd guess that they'd be standalone and as fragile as possible so that
> when you bork your BluRay disc you'll have to buy another (since they
> are resisting Managed Copying or anything like that).
>
> Seriously, I thought there was some "announcement" about a YEAR ago
> that they were going to be in caddies (b/c the Rental industry wanted
> it), but then I never really heard much else in the current time frame
> about it.
>
> -goro-
This reply is going to go seriously OT after the first sentence so feel
free to skip if you want.
Man I haven't seen a CD in a caddy since 1993 when my high school
library had one of those IBM PS/2 model 25 PC's with an external 1x or
2x caddy cd-rom drive. I can't remember what multimedia purpose we
used the ps/2 for but I'm almost positive the IBM XT we had parked next
to it with the puke-green screen was novell netwared into the computer
that cataloged all the books in the library and what was checked in and
out. I can't remember what the XT did before 1994. Then of course you
had across the library the lone Apple IIe and it's AppleWorks floppy's
sitting in between four microfeech readers and the epson 9-pin dot
matrix printer. Tracking down and printing your work on one of the
very few 24-pin epsons hooked to one of the Only-God-Knows-How-Many or
more Apple IIe's around the building was like christmas day.
Getting back to the thread, basically caddy's suck because you end up
touching the disc more to get it in and out of the caddy that you do
with a traditional pop-out tray. That's kind of why caddies went
bye-bye in the transition between 486 and pentium-based clones.
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