burton@fortune.UUCP (04/27/84)
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fortune!burton Apr 26 15:55:00 1984
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If IBM can buy optical disk players and media, so can anyone else. Several
U.S. and a large number of Japanese companies are working on products,
and sme have already announced, based on optical disk technology.
Optimem, part of Xerox, will be selling a r/w player for $6000 in OEM
quantities.
Philip Burton 101 Twin Dolphin Drive-MS 133
Fortune Systems Redwood City, CA 94065 (415) 595-8444 x 526
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fortune!burton Apr 27 17:26:00 1984
Several years ago, I was involved in just the kind of project mentioned
in the previous response note. The proposal was for a company that
builds very expensive products sold to a lot of companies, but almost
no two alike. Every 90 or 120 days, they publish update documentation,
which means some poor schmo in the field has to do all this updating of
3-ring binders by hand, for 1000s of pages.
Now, wouldn't an optical disk make a dandy distribution medium, since
it would support rasterized images economically. And, since the customers
would save a lot of make-work, they might even pay a lot for the service.
And, they would have to buy the readers. ...
Philip Burton 101 Twin Dolphin Drive-MS 133
Fortune Systems Redwood City, CA 94065 (415) 595-8444 x 526
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