Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Data Storage density questions Message-ID: <.K:4OCF@ggpc2.ferranti.com> Date: 4 Aug 90 03:24:16 GMT References: <2635@mindlink.UUCP> <10048@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1990Jul30.231835.13898@diku.dk> <10055@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <2386@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 7 In article <2386@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes: > Blue sky idea: use a cylinder for media, with a bar of mirrors down > the axis, and a laser at the end. Manufacturing costs for non-flat media are pretty much out of the question. Remember drums? Remember old Edison cylindrical records? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`