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Non-Loaner Lab Equipment
DellDimension Desktops
TekTronix Color Printer
Microtek Scanner
Loaner Lab Equipment
Presenter To Go Visor PDAs
Dell Inspiron Laptops
InFocus LP 530 Projectors
Proxima Projector
InFocus LP280 Projectors
Compaq TC1000 Tablet PCs
Sony Mavica
Digital Camera
VST External USB Hard
Drive
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can I check out a piece of lab loaner
equipment?
Online Loaner Equipment Request Form
Loaner Equipment Sign-Out Sheet
in PDF format
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Sony External DVD/CD Burner
 CDs were nice while they
lasted, right? Some of us are still
getting used to the idea that floppies are being phased out in favor of
CDs and Disk On Key type thingies. But alas, technology sleeps for no
one.
As file sizes continue to expand and digital video
continues to explode, "writable" DVD technology has also sprung up.
The math is amazing...our departed friend, the
good ole floppy disk held 1.4Mb (Mb=Megabyte) of info. Now our writable
CD-R and RW discs hold 650-800Mb of info which means one cd-r or Rw disc
can hold 450 to 550 floppy disks' worth of info. But these
whippersnapper DVD discs can hold 4.7 GIGABYTES of info per disc.
So one DVD disc can hold 3,357 floppy discs' worth of
information!
The only glitch is the format. Much like when VHS
& Betamax 
videocassettes came on the market, there are two competing Writable
standards, DVD "-" & DVD "+" However, our Sony drive talks
in either language, neatly sidestepping this issue.
Further, this external drive is smart enough that
it can also function as a cd burner to put information onto CD-R and CD-RW
discs.
What This Equipment Can Be Used For:
This drive be used to create DVDs that contain
massive amounts of information. This can be particularly useful with a
video project which may chafe against the measly 700Mb of a plain CD-R
disc.
Further, the portability of the drive allows it to
function as a loaner cd-burner for other computers as well.
More Information on
the Sony DVD R+-R/RW drive.
For more info on DVD writable formats, here's
a good short DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW/RAM primer |
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