Stephan Rose <nospam@spammer.com> wrote in
news:tuqdnZXkf4o76n3bnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@giganews.com :

> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:48:17 -0500, DanS wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Though, it isn't the media I was looking for. It's the drives to
>>> read & write the media. =)
>>>
>>> Seems though that my father's finally found a US Vendor that
>>> actually has these drives so I'll see if I can order them.
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>>
>>
>> Like these ?:
>>
>> http://meritline.stores.yahoo.net/pa...x-super-multi-
>> dvd- drive.html
>>
>> http://www.usb-ware.com/panasonic-lf...oem.htm#dvdram
>>
>> Note, I just did a quick web seacrh and these said they supported
>> cartridge loading.
>
> Yep, you found the exact same sites my father had found as well. I was
> primarily looking here in Europe and only checked newegg so far as far
> as the US was concerned and came up empty there.
>
> Thanks for the help. =)
>

Not much help but.....

Those drives had been along for a long time. A guy I worked with speced a
PC to have built for him in 2000, and he included a DVD-RAM drive. I
believe back then, all DVD-RAM was cartridge based.

It seems as though DVD-RAM never really took off, and ZIP disks had a
much larger market share, yet obviously not the storage capacity.