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From: ralphw@IUS3.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: CD-WORM? available?
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Date: 4 Feb 88 22:43:25 GMT
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I'm looking for information (rumors,even) about CD-WORM drives.
This would presumably be a CD-ROM transport with a higher-power laser for
burning pits into the disc for data storage.  Similar technology
already exists for 8" and 12" optical media, why not for compact disc?

A SCSI interface and (Unix) Sun device driver would be nice, but not critical.
I can imagine paying up to $10,000 for such a device, and having one
or two per lab, with about 30 $500 CD-ROM drives attached to the
other workstations for reading the data.

I'd love to be able to put 500M of data on a single disc and send
it it a standard disk mailer with no special precautions needed.
It would be especially nice for personal archival storage.

Any information at all would be appreciated.  Thanks.
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					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.

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					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.

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