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From: vnend@ms.uky.edu (D. W. James  -- Staff Account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Hundreds of books on an optical disk (long!)
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Date: 2 Nov 88 19:42:02 GMT
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In article <282@bilver.UUCP> bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) writes:
)Now before you say that can't be done - let me tell you I saw it.  I forgot
)the company that makes it, but the system was a document storage and retreival
)system using high speed scanners, fast photo-copy type printers, and 12" laser
)disk media.  One of the options was a 12 video juke box.  I don't recall the
)exact capacity, but it was large.
)Bill Vermillion - UUCP: {uiucuxc,hoptoad,petsd}!peora!rtmvax!bilver!bill

	If it was the same system that I saw written up in (I think) PC_WEEK
last year it's capacity at the limit was 1.2 TERABYTES.  Not a trivial 
amount of storage...

	
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