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From: ignatz@ihuxx.UUCP (Dave Ihnat, Chicago, IL)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.rumor
Subject: Re: New Half gegabyte ROM...CD vs LASER
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Date: Wed, 2-May-84 09:47:17 EST
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Posted: Wed May  2 09:47:17 1984
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Sorry, not to harp, but...a Laserdisk as to a CD disk as a Space Shuttle
at launch is to OS-360.  Both are big, and impressive--each in its way--but
one is, if not the pinnacle of achievement in its field, a milestone
on the way; while the other is just a big, ugly abortion.  I submit
that CD is the latter.  The head on a CD disk does make contact with
the recording surface, unlike the Laserdisk.  Both the media and the
read head suffer from this.  I've heard a rumor that the CD is to soon
be no more, while the future of the Laserdisk seems assured, so let's
not mix the two, eh?

			In a nitpicking mood,

						Dave Ihnat
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