Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!fortune!burton From: burton@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: New Half gegabyte ROM, This is no jo - (nf) Message-ID: <3171@fortune.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 19:14:21 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.3171 Posted: Thu Apr 26 19:14:21 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Apr-84 06:23:20 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 16 #R:nmtvax:-26600:fortune:28000030:000:504 fortune!burton Apr 26 15:55:00 1984 -0- If IBM can buy optical disk players and media, so can anyone else. Several U.S. and a large number of Japanese companies are working on products, and sme have already announced, based on optical disk technology. Optimem, part of Xerox, will be selling a r/w player for $6000 in OEM quantities. Philip Burton 101 Twin Dolphin Drive-MS 133 Fortune Systems Redwood City, CA 94065 (415) 595-8444 x 526 - - - {ihnp4 [ucbvax | decvax!decwrl]!amd70 harpo hpda }!fortune!burton