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From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: New Half gegabyte ROM...CD vs LASER
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Date: Fri, 27-Apr-84 21:04:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 27 21:04:15 1984
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From Dave Ihnat

>  Sorry, not to harp, but...a Laserdisk as to a CD disk as a Space Shuttle
>  at launch is to OS-360. ...
>  ...  The head on a CD disk does make contact with the recording surface,
>  unlike the Laserdisk.

You are confusing CD (Compact Disc, otherwise known as Digital Audio Disc)
with CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc or something similar).  RCA have indeed
just cancelled the CED.

CD's are alive and well and definitely do use lasers to read the disc.  THe
disc is 12cm in diameter as opposed to the laser video disc whcih is 12 inches
in diameter.
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