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Subject: Re: CD Drive
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Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 04:18:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 11 04:18:19 1987
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> From: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)

>   I could be wrong on this..But..  Are you -Sure- the disks you are
> thinking of are "CD" disks and not optical (aka:Laser) disks?  The only
> read/write/erase very-high-density disks available now (that I've heard
> of) are the 500 megabyte ones from 3M.  Those are, I think, laser optical
> disks reather than CD's...  They may look similar, but the technology
> problems and advantages are different in subtile but important ways....

True, true.  "CD" (for all that means) is just the size/shape/medium
on which the read-only laser disks will be made for micros.  The WORM
and rewritable disks may be larger (or smaller!).  500M *erasable*?
Yow, do you know what price range they are in?  They may be affordable
even sooner than I thought.

						dpz
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David P. Zimmerman           rutgers!dpz           dpz@rutgers.edu