Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 23:59:18 -0400
To: Ade Rixon
From: Russell Salerno
Subject: DAT audio

Every year or so I check up on the status of reading DAT audio via a DDS
drive, and this time around I discovered your page.   I wish I could offer
more info but as you've found, it's nearly impossible to get all the right
pieces in one place.  Several years there was a guy selling Archive DDS
drives with the audio proms, he was able to get a hold of the real thing,
duped the eproms and popped them into non-audio drives.  I wish I had
bought one if only to get those ROM images.  I also recently checked with
some DDS refurbishers and they wanted some ridiculous price, upwards of
$900 for a used drive w/ audio roms.  For that money you could get an audio
DAT + a Lucid sound card and not have to worry about the software end of
it.  And that's what I eventually did.

Anyway, it's sort of sad that such an obviously good thing never really
became widely available.  It goes to show that even though we're sometimes
spoiled by the seemingly endless supply of technology, some things may
always be just out of reach!