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From: chaplin@keinstr.uucp (chaplin)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,rec.music.cd,rec.music.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: card punches for storage
Keywords: punch card CD
Message-ID: <1991May9.171021.492@keinstr.uucp>
Date: 9 May 91 17:10:21 GMT
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In article <10515@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> eyer@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Eyer) writes:
>I prefer my little 13x13x.5 cm CD, and I don't need a huge (compared to
>a CD-player) card-reader. Anyway, using cards would require a reading speed
>of 500 cards/second. Does somedy know if this is realistic ? (I wonder...)
>
>Manu

You are assuming that the cards must be read in "real time", which may not
necessarily be true.  Read them at whatever rate you can into a memory which
has speed sufficient to produce the output.  I suspect that in 25 years,
memories meeting the size and speed requirement will be very commonplace.
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