Solid as a Rock
Written on February 20th, 2026 by Tech Ads
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WE DIDN'T HAVE TO PUT OUR
OPTICAL PRODUCTS ON PEDESTALS,
JERRY POURNELLE DID.
66 I am pleased to report that I’m sold. The the ultimate in backup storage. Bite (12/91)
Pioneeer optical drive. ..is as solid as a rock. ... Thus, Suppose you erase a file? Overwrite one you
I'm discontinuing testing. Now I'll just use the drive. wanted to keep? And suppose your house burned
. [now rely on the Pioneer erasable optical disks for down? You don’t have any off-site backup at all... .1
backup, for primary storage of really big files, and for | could remedy that by installing the DE-S7001 on the
network server and archiving on
that.... Byte (11/91)
‘Thave the DRM-600 running
not only with QEMM386.5Y5, but
inside DESOview windows, which
has the amusing result that I can
actually have several CD-ROM win-
dows open at once... . It’s surprising
how fast you can switch back and
forth among them....The Pioneer
DRM-600... it’s very convenient to
have a bunch of CD-ROMs available
without swapping. Byte (1/91)
It’s quite intuitive [the
Pioneer CD-ROM Minichanger]: no
archive copies of software... you
really need something so easy to use
that you'll routinely use it for
backup. .. the Pioneer DE-S7001 will
do the job very well indeed. Recom-
mended. Bite (9/91)
The Pioneer six-pack CD-ROM
Minichanger is great. We've had it in
operation for the best part of the year
now, on a number of different sys-
tems....It has always performed
flawlessly. ..it changes drives a lot
faster than you'd expect it to... . It’s
really fast.... Accesses that used to
take many seconds are now nearly
instantaneous. Accesses that took instructions are required...
over a minute now take a few sec- Recommended. Byte (1/91)
onds. I always did like the JERRY POURNELLE This technology is %°
Minichanger. ... Now it’s even bet- nigpni Bite coming of age. Byte (1/91)
ter... ‘Tnctoreally the Pioneer RENOWNED COMPUTER COLUMNIST For a information or for a
Minichanger will work just fine with a Mac. Byte (10/91) free VHS videotape ‘Pioneering The Future,” about
The Pioneer DE-S7001 dual-purpose external Pioneer optical disk products, call 1-800-LASER-ON,
optical disk drive I've written about before. Log your and find out why Pioneer is the leader in optical disk
wordprocessor to that, save early and often, and technology. :
you ll have it all... .In a word, WORM drives look like (V) p>} © MN CCR
Pioneer DE-S7001, Pioneer DRM-600, and Pioneer DD-S5101 are trademarks of Pioneer Communications of America, Inc. QEMM386.SYS and DESQview are trademarks of
Quarterdeck Office Systems,
Circle 84 on Inquiry Card.
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‘Solid as a Rock’
Jerry Pournell - Sci Fi author, Computer Columnist, SDI Advocate and, apparently, a big fan of Pioneer WORM and Magneto-Optical disk drives…
A manual for the DE-7001 Magneto-Optical drive can be found at Archive.org.
Taken from: Byte Magazine - Volume 17, Number 5 (May 1992)
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