Path: utzoo!hoptoad!well!mmc
From: mmc@well.UUCP (Matthew McClure)
Newsgroups: alt.next
Subject: Re: Anyone have more information of the optical disc?
Message-ID: <7371@well.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 15:44:37 GMT
References: <4442@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: mmc@well.UUCP (Matthew McClure)
Organization: International Technology Development Corp. (ITDC)
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In article <4442@polya.Stanford.EDU> rothberg@polya.Stanford.EDU (Edward Rothberg) writes:
>Does anyone know where this writeable optical disc came from?  Everything
>I had read before yesterday said that writeable/erasable optical discs were
>a few years off.  Who makes this thing?  Is it available on the open
>market, or was it developed specifically for the NeXT machine?

They said they'd worked with Canon to develop it, and gave the
impression that it was developed specifically for NeXT, though
they didn't go into much detail.

Matthew McClure			{pacbell,lll-crg,apple,hplabs}!well!mmc
International Technology Development Corporation
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