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From: kuo@skatter.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Info on OPTICAL DISCS for Unix Vaxen sought
Message-ID: <290@skatter.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 19:28:08 EST
Article-I.D.: skatter.290
Posted: Fri Feb  6 19:28:08 1987
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Organization: Accelerator Lab, Saskatoon, Sask.
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Keywords: optical disc archive
Summary: Me 2, please!
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In article <421@hslrswi.UUCP>, robert@hslrswi.UUCP (Robert Ward) writes:
> 
> Hello Net,
> 
> We are considering purchasing an optical disc for long-term archival of
> sources, news articles, data files and so on.
> 
> Does anyone have experience of using such a beast ? I am looking for
> pointers indicating what is available. Of course issues such as
> reliability, usability, life-time of the discs themselves,
> cost-effectiveness, etc., are also of great interest to us.
> 

I would like to hear info about this "worm" (write once read many) optical
disk devices too. We are seriously considering using them for on-line data
storage for physics experiments.


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