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From: qsfa1@unx1.UUCP (Graham Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: CD Drive
Message-ID: <237@unx1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 14:30:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: unx1.237
Posted: Wed Apr 22 14:30:02 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 04:31:11 EDT
References: <513@ubu.warwick.UUCP> <695@atari.UUCP> <10865@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: qsfa1@unx1.UUCP (Graham Thomas)
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In article <10865@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> spinner@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Ron Spinner) writes:
>> From: neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris)
>> In article <513@ubu.warwick.UUCP>, agm@warwick.UUCP (Andy Minter) writes:
>> 
>>> I thought you netters out there mught be interested to know tha a British
>>> company called British Unaxial Lasers has developped a CD based optical disk
>>> for the ST.  The drives should be available for under 200 pounds when
>>> they are launched later this year.
>> 
>> etc.
>
>April Fools!
>
>Ron
>
It certainly was!  You might be interested to know that the story comes
from the April issue of the British mag. 'ST User' (now changing its name
to 'ST World').  It worked pretty well, as the story was spread about by
netters on UK nets (e.g. Micronet) as well as on Usenet.  The original
story emphasised that it was an affordable read/write system holding up
to 500 terabytes of information and was developed by British Uniaxial
Lasers Ltd - or BULL for short.  The version of the story that made it
to Usenet was much less incredible, so it's not really Neil Harris's
fault that he got so excited.



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