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From: porthous@longwood.cs.ucf.edu (William Porthouse)
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Subject: Re: GameBlaster CD16 Opinions Wanted!!!
Date: 31 May 1994 12:58:16 -0400
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William Porthouse (porthous@longwood.cs.ucf.edu) wrote:
: Hello,
: I am about to purchase a Creative Labs GameBlaster CD16
: Multi-media Kit.  The best price I have found is around
: $160 mail order and $180 at a local store.

: This has a double speed CD rom drive (300kb/s 350ms avg
: seek), SoundBlaster Pro16 Sound Card, amp.ed speakers, joystick,
: and about 11 disks.  I plan on using it for programming (ie.
: installing C++ and operating systems from it), as well as
: games and multi-media stuff.

: I realize that there are better (faster) drives with
: better interfaces (SCSI II), but for a 50% improvement
: (triple speed), I can't see spending more then double the money.

: I currently have a 386DX-33 with 4meg RAM and 210meg HD (IDE).
: Does anyone out there have any opinions (good or bad) about
: the multi-media package I am about to buy.

: Thanks in advance for any input,
: 			   William (Joe) Porthouse
: 			   University of Central Florida
: 			   porthouse@cs.ucf.edu
  Oops, Sorry about the price.  It was suppose to be
  $360 mail order and $380 at a local store (egghead software).
  Sorroy about that, and thank or all the replies!
							 Joe..