dat@hpcnoe.UUCP (dat) (10/19/84)
Here's an idea that I have been playing with for an optical storage device; Use a Digital Audio Disk system for Read-Only data (like purchased software and distributable databases). Think of the advantages; A disk, about 3 1/2" across, could hold a minimum of 2.05 Megabytes of data (figured out by the fact that a disc can contain 60 minutes of music, and must scan at least 36,000 a minute (I think)) (that completely ignores the fact that the signal has a BANDWIDTH too! Anyone have any ideas on this? The disks are about 10-15 dollars each now, and the drives are down to under $500 each.... -- Dave Taylor HP-CNO
herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services) (10/23/84)
Read this month's BYTE. Sony has had prototypes ever since they
officially announced CD.
Herb...
I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....
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BITNET: herbie at watdcs,herbie at watdcsurik@ucla-cs.UUCP (10/23/84)
There's a paper in the October issue of BYTE:
"Optical Memory: Data Storage by Laser," by Edward S. Rothchild (pp. 215-224).
An interesting paper. Talks about disks with hundreds of Megabytes becoming
available within a couple of years...
Rik Verstraete.
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...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!rikalan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak) (10/24/84)
Dave, Before you jump in with CDs, read the 22 Oct Electronics Week, page 17. The article is titled: Sony, Hitachi ready erasable optical disks. It's subtitle is: Sony's 30-cm 1-gigabyte-per-side disk and Hitachi's 12-cm 0.55-gigabyte disk bring commercial magneto-optical gear into view. I'm not going to type-in all that's pertinent, but it does say: Later this month, Sony Corp.,...will deliver two drives... [Both cos.] imply that shipments are roughly two years in the future.