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From: "Eugene Radchenko" <genie@qsar.chem.msu.su>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: 14 Mar 1997 15:07:26 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Chemistry, Moscow State University
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Ken Apa <gapa@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> wrote in article
<5g9mfj$emd@news.ecn.bgu.edu>...
> : Then there comes a choice of add-on hardware (like CD-ROMs, tapes,
> : etc.). Here SGI will just ripp you off, for "compatable hardware".
> 
> I concure. That whole $1000 CD-ROM deal thay had going for a while was
> pretty darn silly.
AFAIK, some third-party SCSI-2 CD-ROMS (e.g. Toshiba) do work on SGI.

Genie

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