A BDU's is born every minute ...

[jpero at sympatico.ca]

> At 01:39 PM 10/17/2005, Bob Bradlee wrote:
> >With the aid of a paperclip and a prybar, I opened up the drive to fine a 
> >shattered CD inside. I took one look at it and asked what had happened
> >in shock, it was shattered in a hundred pieces. 
> 
> But I've seen this happen *twice* to a client who wasn't
> dunking them in LOX.  CDs are spinning quite quickly.
> In this case, they were pressed CDs - cheap games, surely,
> perhaps they even came in a cereal box.
> 
> - John

Is this exploding CDs at 52X speeds reason IBM had many CD drives 
derated to 20X-48X ranges?

Cheers, Wizard