This was the last Yamaha model. Yamaha has now D/C'd their CD Rom
business and may have licensed others for this patented technology.
These units remain in the closeout market. 2 cents worth: This
computer captive joined this OM letter to further a return to reality
begun in the seventies on mountain tops in WA with an OM 1. The
CDROM.... R/W/RW/XXX DVD/ soon to be blue laser variants, etc,
etc.etc. is all nice but why on this site?????? I use CDROM every
day on blanks that cost 1/10 of an archaic floppy and use a very simple
'Sharpie' permanent marker to carefully write quickly (much faster than
fussing with SW) the contents of the disk and date on the TOP side.
If you need to do a lot of them, make a cheap stencil. K-I-S-S
all this inkjet printing and printed labels and laser printed labels
and....... when you could be out with an OM. Finally, almost any
label other than a felt pen risks unbalancing the disk so that it can
not be read at optimum speed. When CDROMs were 8x, the wobble was not
a problem. At 50+ X, the least imbalance corrupts the process.
.........and unless you are REALLY into LONG movies and have no other
choice at the moment, don't get me started on the wasteful $/MB of DVD
when CDROM blanks are sub ten cents. This will change in the next year
as blue laser technology enters the marketplace of mere mortals.
w. hunter
On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 08:52 PM, Tom Scales wrote:
Well, I can't find the info on their site. I would have sworn it was
TDK.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) Query on how to get a better image
Hi Folks, Tom wrote
Not sure if this has been discussed, but TDK's burner will etch the
label
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