osmigo@ut-emx.UUCP (12/26/89)
A cousin of mine who works as a programmer in Los Angeles is visiting here for Xmas. He told me yesterday about seeing a device developed by Tandy at some kind of electronics market show. It's fully operational. It's a WMRM (write many/read many) optical disk with a capacity of about 4 gigabytes. It can interface with your VCR, computer, or CD player, to the extent that you can store/retrieve all three kinds of data on a single optical disk. It threatens to *devastate* the market for hard disks, CD players, and VCR's, since its enormous capacity permits you to use a single disk for *everything*. The device is supposed to retail for under $600. Extra disks (should you ever need one!) will run about $160. Tandy is currently contracting with 4 companies (such as Dell computer) to manufacture the disks. And now, the obvious, obvious question: is this for real? Ron Morgan osmigo@emx.utexas.edu
umrose05@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dave Rose) (12/30/89)
In article <22805@ut-emx.UUCP> osmigo@ut-emx.UUCP writes: >A cousin of mine who works as a programmer in Los Angeles is visiting here >for Xmas. He told me yesterday about seeing a device developed by Tandy >at some kind of electronics market show. It's fully operational. > >It's a WMRM (write many/read many) optical disk with a capacity of about >4 gigabytes. It can interface with your VCR, computer, or CD player, to the >extent that you can store/retrieve all three kinds of data on a single >optical disk. It threatens to *devastate* the market for hard disks, >CD players, and VCR's, since its enormous capacity permits you to use a >single disk for *everything*. > >The device is supposed to retail for under $600. Extra disks (should you >ever need one!) will run about $160. Tandy is currently contracting with >4 companies (such as Dell computer) to manufacture the disks. > >And now, the obvious, obvious question: is this for real? > >Ron Morgan >osmigo@emx.utexas.edu Did you by chance ask him what style or type of "disk" it is going to use? Interesting prospect... Dave -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send any EMAIL replies to: UmRose05@CCU.UManitoba.CA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu (Bryon Lape) (01/08/90)
I think it may be phony. Tandy has been developing THOR, but it is a WORM drive and it sucks. I have had no lease information about any other drive, but I do know that THOR is behind schedule. -bryon-