agm@warwick.UUCP (04/01/87)
[] I thought you netters out there mught be interested to know tha a British company called British Unaxial Lasers has developped a CD based optical disk for the ST. The drives should be available for under 200 pounds when they are launched later this year. Andrew Minter ...seismo!mcvax!ukc!warwick!agm (I think!)
neil@atari.UUCP (04/06/87)
In article <513@ubu.warwick.UUCP>, agm@warwick.UUCP (Andy Minter) writes: > I thought you netters out there mught be interested to know tha a British > company called British Unaxial Lasers has developped a CD based optical disk > for the ST. The drives should be available for under 200 pounds when > they are launched later this year. Please get the address and telephone number of this company onto the net! The price is unbelievable. I'd personally like to know as much as possible about this. -- --->Neil Harris, Director of Marketing Communications, Atari Corporation UUCP: ...{hoptoad, lll-lcc, pyramid, imagen, sun}!atari!neil BIX: neilharris / CIS: 70007,1135 / Delphi: NEILHARRIS / GENIE: NHARRIS WELL: neil / Atari Corp. BBS 408-745-5308 / Usually the OFFICIAL Atari opinion
spinner@topaz.UUCP (04/09/87)
> From: neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) > Subject: Re: CD Drive > In article <513@ubu.warwick.UUCP>, agm@warwick.UUCP (Andy Minter) writes: > >> I thought you netters out there mught be interested to know tha a British >> company called British Unaxial Lasers has developped a CD based optical disk >> for the ST. The drives should be available for under 200 pounds when >> they are launched later this year. > > Please get the address and telephone number of this company onto the net! > The price is unbelievable. I'd personally like to know as much as possible > about this. > > -- > --->Neil Harris, Director of Marketing Communications, Atari Corporation I assume your response is also a joke; or perhaps you did not notice that the original was posted with a date of 4/1/87 :) April Fools! Ron [PS - If there REALLY were such a beast (emphasis on WRITEABLE CD), I would not only have heard about it elsewhere, I would own one] -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Ronald A. Spinner "Computer...computer... Ah, a keyboard; how quaint..."| |Arpa: spinner@rutgers Uucp: ...{harvard | seismo | pyramid}!rutgers!spinner | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
weber_w@apollo.UUCP (04/09/87)
In article <10865@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> spinner@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Ron Spinner) writes: >> In article <513@ubu.warwick.UUCP>, agm@warwick.UUCP (Andy Minter) writes: >> >>> I thought you netters out there mught be interested to know tha a British >>> company called British Unaxial Lasers has developped a CD based optical disk > >.....that the original was posted with a date of 4/1/87 :) > Made the same assumption by noticing that British Unaxial Lasers Ltd. would be BULL :-) -- Walt Weber PHONE: (617) 256-6600 x7004 Apollo Computer GENIE: W.WEBER Chelmsford, Mass. COMPUSERVE: 76515,2423
paone@topaz.UUCP (04/09/87)
I HAVE heard of a writtable CD elsewhere. And I see no reason why there could not be one for the ST. However...the price should be higher then most STers would go for though (At least this STer) -- Phil Paone paone@topaz.rutgers.edu "Admiral...There be whales here"
john@viper.UUCP (04/11/87)
In article <10878@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> paone@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Phil Paone) writes: >I HAVE heard of a writtable CD elsewhere. And I see no reason why >there could not be one for the ST. However...the price should be >higher then most STers would go for though (At least this STer) >-- >Phil Paone >paone@topaz.rutgers.edu > >"Admiral...There be whales here" I could be wrong on this..But.. Are you -Sure- the disks you are thinking of are "CD" disks and not optical (aka:Laser) disks? The only read/write/erase very-high-density disks available now (that I've heard of) are the 500 megabyte ones from 3M. Those are, I think, laser optical disks reather than CD's... They may look similar, but the technology problems and advantages are different in subtile but important ways.... --- John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP) Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems UUCP: ...{amdahl,ihnp4,rutgers}!{meccts,dayton}!viper!john
dpz@paul.UUCP (04/11/87)
> From: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley) > I could be wrong on this..But.. Are you -Sure- the disks you are > thinking of are "CD" disks and not optical (aka:Laser) disks? The only > read/write/erase very-high-density disks available now (that I've heard > of) are the 500 megabyte ones from 3M. Those are, I think, laser optical > disks reather than CD's... They may look similar, but the technology > problems and advantages are different in subtile but important ways.... True, true. "CD" (for all that means) is just the size/shape/medium on which the read-only laser disks will be made for micros. The WORM and rewritable disks may be larger (or smaller!). 500M *erasable*? Yow, do you know what price range they are in? They may be affordable even sooner than I thought. dpz -- David P. Zimmerman rutgers!dpz dpz@rutgers.edu
jack@mcvax.UUCP (04/11/87)
In article <1526@umd5.umd.edu> hans@umd5.umd.edu (Hans Breitenlohner) writes: > (2 years * 365 days/year * 24 hours/day * 3600 seconds/hour * > 20 writes/second * 512 bytes/write) = (approximately) 646 gigabytes You won't be able to fill a 600Gb disk in 2 years. Actually, you won't be able to fill it at all! Can you say '40 folders':-( -- Jack Jansen, jack@cwi.nl (or jack@mcvax.uucp) The shell is my oyster.
engst@batcomputer.UUCP (04/12/87)
I may be mistaken, but wasn't Atari going to put out a CD disk for the ST
once they could get it in a reasonable price range and be dual purpose (ie
play the Beatles as well as Grolier's Encyclopaedia)? Any comment on that,
Neil?
Adam Engst
engst@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu
pv9y@cornella.bitnetcsan@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Andie) (04/20/87)
I have read a review about this . The review says that the disks can hold up
to 5 terabytes and uses a special form of liquid crystal to form its holding
surface. They say that you can use a domestic CD player suitably modified.
The review was in ST User International ... Personaly, Im very sceptical
about the whole thing ... as it was published in the April addition as was
already pointed out . I dont seem to remember any address being published
but I will check .
Sorry if this has already been mentioned/exposed/etc... Ive been on holiday
and still have 216 messages to catch up on .
Andie Ness . Department of Computer Science
EDINBURGH University.
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JANET: csan@uk.ac.ed.itspna
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% "The back row strikes again!"qsfa1@unx1.UUCP (Graham Thomas) (04/22/87)
In article <10865@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> spinner@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Ron Spinner) writes: >> From: neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) >> In article <513@ubu.warwick.UUCP>, agm@warwick.UUCP (Andy Minter) writes: >> >>> I thought you netters out there mught be interested to know tha a British >>> company called British Unaxial Lasers has developped a CD based optical disk >>> for the ST. The drives should be available for under 200 pounds when >>> they are launched later this year. >> >> etc. > >April Fools! > >Ron > It certainly was! You might be interested to know that the story comes from the April issue of the British mag. 'ST User' (now changing its name to 'ST World'). It worked pretty well, as the story was spread about by netters on UK nets (e.g. Micronet) as well as on Usenet. The original story emphasised that it was an affordable read/write system holding up to 500 terabytes of information and was developed by British Uniaxial Lasers Ltd - or BULL for short. The version of the story that made it to Usenet was much less incredible, so it's not really Neil Harris's fault that he got so excited. -- ---- Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK JANET: qsfa1@uk.ac.sussex.unx1 EARN/BITNET: qsfa1@unx1.sussex.ac.uk UUCP: ..mcvax!ukc!cvaxa!unx1!qsfa1 Phone: +44 273 686758
Henry_Burdett_Messenger@cup.portal.com.UUCP (05/20/87)
There is a WORM (write once read many) optical drive available NOW
for the IBM PS/2 machines, so this isn't quite as farfetched as you
might think...
Henry B. Messenger, a DECperson, but in no way representing Digital.
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