re : DVD-RAM Drive in new machine

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam

Thanks for your willingness to do this. No rush, at your convenience, of 
course. Are these things rewritable?

As I suggested, try a program that does something harmless - you may 
already know this, but it just needs to be named QINSTAPP and saved from 
QTEMP with SAVOBJ.

BTW, nice testimonial from Tupperware.

Vern

At 01:48 PM 8/21/2003 +1000, you wrote:
> Hi Vern,
>
> If you like, I can try and do the test. Probably won't get a chance next
> week, but the week after I should have time.
>
> We bought 15 blank DVD-RAMs from IBM for A$3000 (inclusive of a 10% goods &
> services tax), or roughly A$180 per disk (pre-tax), which would work out
> around US$90. They were all two sided, which means they come in a plastic
> jacket. The DVD-RAM however, can use disks with or without the jacket. We
> also had one sample single-sided disk from IBM which was also in a jacket.
> The double-sided are stuck in the jackets, the single-sided can be removed
> but are read-only when not in the jacket.
>
> The company we're doing the extraction for has apparently bought a
> Panasonic DVD-RAM reader which can also use the disks in jackets, so that's
> not a specific IBM thing. I do believe you can get the same disks from
> sources other than IBM for a bit less as well.
>
> I'll let you know how I go with the test.
>
> Thanks
>
> Adam Driver