What is the best CD-RW drive for an Amiga 2000HD?

[Karlos]

Aww, come on, surely we all know there were military grade chipsets made for the US military?

The military grade OCS chipset, as saught after by our erstwhile friend, comprised the ultra hardened versions of out fave chips, namely "General, Commander and Seargent", fabricated to withstand a 1 megaton  EMP...

Note also, that his CIA chips are in fact the real thing, complemented by an 8522 NSA chip, only available for military grade 2000HD systems.

I can't believe you had to ask. Jeez ;-)

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Be sure to get yourself a military grade avatar in future, too. Like mine... :roflmao:

[Karlos]

iamaboringperson wrote:

Maybe
DoomMaster is on to something here guys...I for
one would like an explanation. And DoomMaster
is right - gold 'does conduct better..

Better than what? The main advantage of gold is that it is resistant to corrosion.
Copper conducts better than gold.
Silver conducts better than gold.

People who buy cables with gold connectors thinking conduct better are fooling themselves.
Utimatly cables would be made of silver(or perhaps selenium, which is light dependant), or even better a really cold super-conducter.

I may be wrong, but I seem to recall from physics lessons of old that higher freqency electronic signals (from kHz upwards) tend to flow more at the surface of the material rather than through the body of it. The presence of surface oxides and the like reduce the conductivity there so that too would put gold out in front.

My various audio cables are all oxygen free copper with gold plated jacks supposedly for this reason.

[Karlos]

Actually, although I had a bit of a tease, the chip issue is actually quite interesting. You may have noticed there have been several serious comments since :-)

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If the components are indeed 'militarty spec', then he's got the right idea using them, given the age of the A2000 and the part's anticipated lifespan.

[Karlos]

To DoomMaster,

So is it the component longevity that youre after?

[Karlos]

DoomMaster wrote:
To lorddef:

I am using your picture of me as my new avatar.     :-P

A stokey poking out of the corner of your mouth and the effect would be complete! :-)

[Karlos]

iamaboringperson wrote:
You're right about the higher frequency transmitting along the outer edges of the cable, however with your OFC cables there is no gold on the cable itself. The gold is only on the connector.

Er yeah, I know that :-) The contacts are only plated gold because they cant operate in an oxygen free environment, unlike the copper conductor inside the cable.

Being corrosion resistant, the jacks dont degrade the signal's high frequencies. There'd be bugger all point in excluding the oxygen from the copper conductor only to have poorly conducting oxides all over the surface of the jacks...

[Karlos]

@Ima

Bah! So no EMP resistant Denise then? Bummer.