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    17-Feb-91  22:22:07
Sb: #High Sierra CDROM fmts
Fm: PaulSeniura 76476,464
To: all

I just went to the CDROM SIG here on CIS.  They have a set of 4 text files that
describe the High Sierra CDROM format to the hilt!  These have been available
on-line for exactly 3 years to the day!

That's yet another hurdle we just jumped over (re: earlier messages on how
OS9ers are faring on access to CDROM databases).

Can the various makers of SCSI interfaces for the CoCo3/OS9 please reply to my
original messages, and please describe how well "your" SCSI will handle the
CDROM drives made for SCSI?  (There are some CDROM drives being made that are
not SCSI; I'm not concerned about those! :-)  These would be "read-only" disks
so to speak, so the Device Descriptors must be 100% accurate in relation to the
prerecorded media, I would think.

And then if your SCSI can run CDROM drives accurately, we might be home-free in
developing a High Sierra RBF-style file manager.  So, who can help us!?!?

I might as well ask FHL how his K-buss SCSI cards can deal with CDROM drives?

And I definitely need Disto to respond with respect to his Super Controller
add-on cards.  Please?

And can Chris Burke find out if his XT interfacer can adapt the IBM-compatible
8-bit SCSI cards to the CoCo buss and whether we might get some help along
these particular ideas?

Judging by the size of the H.S. text files I downloaded (goodness over
180K-bytes all told), it might be the "last" hurdle -- and a DOOZY -- to get an
OS9 file manager going to read those dudes.

I hope - I hope - I hope - the various database formats are there, too, such as
how they pack graphics & animation in the Compton's Encyclopedia for example.

Thank you all very much in advance - sometimes CIS *IS* worth its on-line time
charges in gold!!    -- Thx, Paul Seniura (76476,464).

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