On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:12:02 -0500, DanS wrote:

> 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.

Yea! I didn't even know DVD RAM existed until like a few months ago.

As far as I know, that stuff took off very well in Japan. Amazon.co.jp has
the drives for like 60 bucks a piece. Unfortunately don't ship them to me
though!

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Stephan
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