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From: azevedo@lll-crg.ARPA (Stephen Azevedo)
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Subject: Optical disk computer storage?
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 17:32:35 EST
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	Does anyone out there know about the availability of optical
or laser disk storage for mini or micro computers?  What I am looking
for is reliable write-once storage for an inspection system with maybe
10 to 20 Giga-byte of on-line reference image information.  I realize
optical disks or compact disks exist, but are there controllers for
these beasts that plug into some standard bus on some kind of computer
with some kind of driver at some reasonable price?
	The largest Winchester disks I've heard of so far are the new
700 Mbyte (Fujitsu) Eagles so I'm not wild about using magnet disks for
this application.  Also, the automatic tape libraries are too slow and
bulky for what we need.  Am I missing something else?  Thank you in
advance for your help -- I'll be glad to re-post what I find.

			Steve Azevedo (azevedo@lll-crg.arpa)