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From: Q3885@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Phillip M Immordino)
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Subject: Re: What's coming?
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Date: 2 Aug 89 11:35:20 GMT
Expires: 10 Aug 89
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In article <245300016@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>NeXt should redesign the optical drive to take tiny weeny small disks
>that cost only $5, like the cheap small CD's that have come out,
>or break down and install a real floppy for distribution purposes.
>
>Doug McDonald

   Canon Optical of Japan designed the 256MEG and 512MEG optical drive.
 NeXT designed the OSP (Optical storage Processor) chip to interface
 with the optical drive.  The 512MEG (double-sided) drive, will probably
 come out when they improve the access time.

                                        Phil Immordino
                                        Princeton University
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