williams@kirk.DEC (John Williams 223-3402) (01/30/86)
CD roms will be capable of storing 2-3 orders of magnitude more data/area. The traditional density limitations don't apply to laser. Theoretically, you could build a drive that is diffraction limited. Grollier's is going to be manufacturing a CD encyclopedia. Perhaps this will give you an idea of how much one of these can store. The most practical application is for reference databases. John.
thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) (01/31/86)
According to a recent article in MacWorld, you can now buy the catalog
of the Library of Congress on a CD-ROM. Of course, the LC has a BIG
catalog.
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=Spencer ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA)lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (02/01/86)
Actually, you can't exactly BUY the Library of Congress index on CD, but you can SUBSCRIBE to it on a (I think) quarterly basis. However, it ain't cheap. --Lauren--
keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) (02/05/86)
In article <1667@utah-gr.UUCP> thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) writes: >According to a recent article in MacWorld, you can now buy the catalog >of the Library of Congress on a CD-ROM. Of course, the LC has a BIG >catalog. > >-- >=Spencer ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA) When you can get the entire library on CD's, let me know. Keith Doyle # {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd # cadovax!keithd@ucla-locus.arpa