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To: Night Writer who wrote (27884)	6/19/1998 2:57:00 PM
From: Senator949	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 97611

NW, As I was primarily interested in low cost backup device I ended up buying an NEC PD/CD 650MByte Re-Writeable cartridge drive. It is 6x Read and 2X Write. It reads and writes the PD cartridges and reads all regular cds. Unfortunately it won't write CDR or CD-RW blanks but for $169 including a PD cartridge it is a good cheap backup drive. When I bought my drive extra cartridges were anywhere from $22 to $35 depending on the source. What I've ended up using it most for is a multi CD audio player. I use a piece of shareware call WinDAC that extracts Audio CD tracks and then compresses them into MP3 format and writes them back to a PD cartridge. I can then output playlists or just random tracks to the stereo. I forget the exact effect of the MP3 compression but I think I get about 25 normal CD's on one 650M cartridge. Of course you could do the same thing with CD-R or CD-RW. Robin