Date   : Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:53:21 +0000 (GMT)
From   : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: BBC Micro CD-ROM?

In article <1236934230.12091.80.camel@...>,
   Phil Blundell <philb@...> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 07:54 +0000, Rob wrote:
> > I would think it's fine for the driver; a bigger problem might be
> > memory to store the larger block sizes.
>
> Not that I can immediately think of much CD-ROM content that would be
> useful to access on a beeb, but still... :-}

You're right, a DVD-ROM driver would be more useful.
Hey - you could put the Domesday content onto a DVD and do away with those
huge laser disc things (assuming the video track could be extracted and
reencoded as an MPEG or something useful),
Sprow.