Where can I find equipment to make my own CD-ROMs?

This is very old information, sorry
If you want to do single copy `one-offs', or low volume CD production, there are recorders announced by JVC, Philips, Sony, Yamaha, Pinnacle Micro, and Ricoh.

JVC Personal ROM-Maker       $12500 (complete system, including software)
Philips CDD-521               $5500 (+ $1900 for software)
Pinnacle Micro                $3995 ISO 9660 and HFS software for Macs
Ricoh                         $3895
Sony CDW-900E                $10000 (???)
Yamaha                        $5000
Kodak remarkets the Philips drive as their PCD Writer 200.

Several people have complained about the Pinnacle Micro product being unreliable and hard to use.

Authoring Software:

Authorware, Inc.               Authorware pro  1 612-921-8555
Dataware Technologies, Inc.    CD Author       1 510 942-3111
Dataware Technologies, Inc.    ReferenceSet    1 510 942-3111
Electronic Text Corporation    WordCruncher    ? ??? ???-????
Executive Technologies, Inc.   Search Express  1 205-933-5494
Executive Technologies         CD-Author       1 205-933-5494
Folio Corporation              Folio Previews  1 800 228-3934/801 375-3700
Hewlett-Packard                Laserretrieve   1 800-752-0900
I-MODE Retrieval Systems, Inc. I-SEARCH        ? ??? ???-????
Image Storage/Retrieval Systm  ISRS App Dev    1 800-524-0897
Knowledge Access International KAware          1 415-969-0606
Nimbus Information Systems     Romware         ? ??? ???-????
OnLine Business Systems        CD-Build        ? ??? ???-????
Quantum Access, Inc.           Quantum Leap    1 713-622-3211
Reference Technology                           1 303-449-4157
Retrieval Technologies, Inc.   re:Search       ? ??? ???-????
Textware Corporation           Textware        ? ??? ???-????
TMS, Inc.                      Innerview       1 405-377-0880
There are several usenet groups dedicated to CDROM publishing:

comp.publish.cdrom.hardware
comp.publish.cdrom.software
comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia


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