Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: how fast could disks be (Mach 1) Message-ID: <2852@phri.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 09:54:14 EDT Article-I.D.: phri.2852 Posted: Sun Aug 16 09:54:14 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 22:42:49 EDT References: <12191@amdahl.amdahl.com> <1189@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 10 Keywords: laser disk scan Mach Summary: History repeats itself In <1189@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes: > eventually, we will just scan the laser beam across an unmoving disk. > ( I expect the "disk" to be the back of a credit card, except of course > inside the larger, sealed units. ) Oh wow, sounds like CRT memories all over again :-) -- Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016