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From: olson@sax.cs.uiuc.edu (Robert Olson)
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Subject: Re: OD Info
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Date: 12 Feb 90 22:02:42 GMT
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In article <1990Feb12.212555.9677@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> olson@sax.cs.uiuc.edu (Robert Olson) writes:
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Ack. Don't know what happened here. This is what *should* have been there:

I just got a call from an aero engineering student who is looking for 
information on optical disk drives, and the NeXT/Canon drive in 
particular (he is working on designing a probe to Pluto....). 
He'd like to know things like:
	I/O throughput
	sensitivity to vibration
	expected lifetime 
	weight
and the like. If anyone has any info about these, please drop me some
email.

He said that the people that he talked to at NeXT told him that the OD in
the NeXT was designed in a cooperative effort with Canon. I was under the
impression that NeXT just used Canon's drive, not helped design it. What
really is the case??

thanks,
bob
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Bob Olson			University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
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