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From: jadahlin@acsu.buffalo.edu (jason a dahlin)
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Subject: Re: New Shuttle Computers
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Date: 19 Mar 91 01:54:42 GMT
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eagle@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel L'Hommedieu) writes:
>msjohnso@daisy.WichitaKS.NCR.COM (Mark Johnson) writes:
>>I wonder if they've considered using CD-ROM as a storage medium for the control
>>programs. It's rugged, the drives can be lighter than tapes, the media is
>>not alterable except by drastic accident on-board, etc.

>Have you ever used a CD player?  I don't think a CD-ROM is a viable
>alternative, as it is very easy to "skip" a CD player (for instance,
>just tap or hit the desk near a CD player and listen to it skip).  I
>should think that the g-forces and vibrations experienced during launch
>would be too harsh for the CD-ROM drive.

I would think that they could manage a sufficient anti-role mechanism to 
counteract this.  They already have cheap ones in most good discmans.

My question is this... does anyone know if cd-rom is effected by magnets or
magnetic forces?


papa sm00sh
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