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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: 20 Meg floppies!!!!
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Date: 3 May 91 06:49:41 GMT
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In article <1991May3.061129.6444@engin.umich.edu> dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) writes:

    And where did you read about this? I get BYTE, but didn't see mentino in
   the latest issue. *I'm* waiting for phase-change optical drives to hit
   mainstram; which they should, with a vengeance. It's my personal hope that
   NeXT will support these as a mass-storage medium....

There was in an article in Byte Magazine last fall.  We should be
hearing more about the drives by this summer.  They sound like they
should satify software distribution problems for 10 years or so.  And
let's not forget the problem of backuping up the NeXT.  You aren't
going to do that on a CD-ROM.

-Mike