Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!mala.bc.ca!epaus!kinoue Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom.reviews Subject: Re: Anyone using 3X Drives? Message-ID: From: kinoue@epaus.island.net (Katsumi Inoue) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 07:36:32 GMT References: <2taktk$16k@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <2tgkcs$j6o@news.u.washington.edu> Organization: The //Express// Public Access UN*X System - (604) 753-2383 Lines: 30 In article <2tgkcs$j6o@news.u.washington.edu>, Stanford Prescott wrote: >vimrich@athena.mit.edu (Vernon R Imrich) writes: >>I'm in the market for "multimedia kits" and have seen some >>ads for 3X (triple speed) CD-ROMs. However, since I've never >>even used a 2X, I have no idea what kind of advantage the >>new 3X is. Usually, when buying new electronics, "new" things >>become "a must" in only a short time. (I don't of any 1X >>CD-ROM's even selling anymore). Any experience out there? I'm also in the market and I read quite a lot of messages on Compuserve and articles in USENET about NEC 3X. I read more bad things than good things about the drive. I read on CI$ that drives with version 2.2 firmware have problems. I'm not sure what firmware means but maybe program in ROM or something. Does anyone know whether 3Xp drives with version 2.2 firmware are still around in market? >>P.S. NEC's 3X ad is awesome. (It's an incredible photo of a >>woman's face with the words, "don't lie to me." It is a face >>that you absolutely cannot turn down!) >She is on several TV commercials also and I've seen her in a couple of >films recently, too. So , what's her name, please? :) -- Katsumi Inoue Nanaimo, B.C. Canada "The real world is not some leftist music video." -Henry Robertson