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From: pmr@drufl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Some Thoughts on Cassettes - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 19-Jan-84 13:54:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 19 13:54:42 1984
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What would the "ultimate" storage medium be?  Remember the classic
sci-fi movie "Forbidden Planet?"  The storage medium in this show
appeared to be an optically-recorded crystaline cylinder, a technology
being seriously developed today.  The player appeared to be a perfectly
smooth, controll-less "salt shaker" with one hole in the top.  (I wonder
how the cylinders were ejected?  They never showed that part.)

I hope to be around to talk to the youngsters about cassettes in the
same way that the olde timers of hi-fi talk to us today about Edison
cylinders.

		Yours for higher fidelity,
		Phil Rastocny
		AT&T-ISL
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