newton@cit-vax (Mike Newton) (05/03/85)
One of the grpahics people here asked me to post this to the net. Please reply to him directly: barr@cit-vax.ARPA or ucbvax!cithep!cit-vax!barr From barr Fri May 3 04:22:21 1985 Received: by cit-vax.ARPA id AA14631 at Fri, 3 May 85 04:22:18 pdt Date: Fri, 3 May 85 04:22:18 pdt From: barr (Alan Barr) Message-Id: <8505031122.AA14631@cit-vax.ARPA> To: newton Subject: speaking to the collective mind Could you ask the collective hacking consciousness about their experience with write-once read many digital laser disks (of gigabyte or so capacity)? I've heard that many companies have gone into this business, and then quickly out of it again; I'm looking for a more permanent bulk storage approach to our disk space problem. ------ mike
jbn@wdl1.UUCP (05/14/85)
The same day that Storage Technology announced that it was abandoning its 4GB laser disk product, IBM announced a 4.5GB magnetic disk drive. Unfortunately, the IBM drive is only available at present with a hideously expensive controller for IBM mainframes. But the technology is clearly there on the magnetic side.