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From: hankd@pur-ee.UUCP (Hank Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.arch
Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
Summary: NeXT
Message-ID: <9480@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 16:35:20 GMT
References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <72886@sun.uucp> <635@ardent.UUCP> <73003@sun.uucp>
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <73003@sun.uucp>, swilson%thetone@Sun.COM (Scott Wilson) writes:
> In article <635@ardent.UUCP> kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich) writes:
> >In article <72886@sun.uucp> swilson@sun.UUCP (Scott Wilson) writes:
[Much stuff about the optical disk...]

Certainly, it is possible to make a randomly read/write/modify optical disk;
isn't that what Tandy did just a short while ago?  The things that bug me are:

(1)	Less than 300M of storage...  that's less than an audio CD.  Does this
	imply that the format is some brand new magic thing that nobody else
	will be using?
(2)	$50 each?  It should be more like $15 each....  I wonder why it isn't?
(3)	One disk is the minimum you can run with, and we all know it's stupid
	to try that, but it sure makes the system price seem nicer....  I'd
	say that the one-disk system is a marketing hack comparable to selling
	cars with 3 tires and making the fourth one optional:  who's not gonna
	buy the extra tire?  Most of us will even buy a spare....

								-hankd