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From: judd@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.rumor
Subject: Re: New Half gegabyte ROM...CD vs LASER
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Date: Mon, 30-Apr-84 17:48:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 30 17:48:56 1984
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this may not be as usefull as it sounds.  since the idea is to mass-produce data
and files on these 1/2 gigabyte CD's the potential for an error to cause lots of
damage is high.  eg 300 engineers get stress analysis w/ some vital parameter
wrong  eg g=9.6m/s^2.

a CD format w/ a player that can write on the CD (reserve some space for corrections)
giving you a 1/2 giga PROM would be a better technology.
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