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From: burton@fortune.UUCP
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Subject: Re: What Price CDs? - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 19:07:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 19:07:13 1984
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fortune!burton    May 23 15:55:00 1984


One of the real potentials of optical disks is graphics.  Images which
cannot be desccribed digitally must be "rasterized" to convert the images
into digital form.  With any kind of magnetic storage, the cost is prohibitive
for most applications.  With optical media, cost can be reduced by as much
as 10:1 over removable magnetic media.  Most graphics meant for distribution,
such as pictures, maps, diagrams, would not need to be changed on the
distribution media, so the write-once nature of optical media is not an
issue.

  Philip Burton      101 Twin Dolphin Drive-MS 133
  Fortune Systems    Redwood City, CA  94065	     (415) 595-8444 x 526
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