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From: ptw@vaxine.UUCP (P. T. Withington)
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Subject: Re: New Half gegabyte ROM...CD vs LASER
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Date: Fri, 27-Apr-84 14:29:24 EST
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Ihnat, Geller, you're both right!

Ihnat is talking about the RCA video disk abortion, which was at one time
called "CD" (dunno, capacitive detection or some such), which *does* contact
the disk when it plays, which has been "obsoleted" by its own parent.  Geller is
talking about Compact (audio) Disks, which are just small format laser disks
(except I think they have constant rotational velocity) and they do *not*
contact the disk when they play.

CD's are obsolete as the eight-track (i.e RCA plans to keep building them as
long as people buy them); but CD's are not (i.e. Phillips just invented them
and Sony just licensed them).  I think I'm going to call my broker and buy some
CD's right now.

                                o.o     --ptw
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