kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan) (06/13/88)
[Cross-posted, followups directed to comp.sys.amiga] In article <4438@killer.UUCP> writes: >In message <216@jackson.UUCP>, egranthm@jackson.UUCP (Ewan Grantham) says: >>Nothing to worry about, don't get any of the above. Better to save >>your money, like I am, for an erasable CD drive. Which brings up the >>question, does anyone know of a plan to adapt Maxtor's new 5 1/4" >>erasable CD to run with the Amiga? > >I was under the understanding that someone has designed an SCSI >interface for the erasable CD, so that it can be treated to all >effects like a SCSI hard drive (i.e. get a C-LTD or A2090, & >plug'n'play). > >If that not be so (the plug'n'play, that is), 'preciate some mail... >one of those li'l puppies be just right for some of the things we be >doing. > >-- >Eric Lee Green ..!{ames,att,decwrl,ihnp4,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg > Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 Lafayette, LA 70509 >"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?" I thought this article from alt.emusic might be an interesting tie in. Anyone got a price, release date, interface, transfer rate, track capacity (gives a whole new meaning to track at a time buffering), latency, etc. rumor to share? This is just the right sized storage for my home system. Think of it as room for a five year supply of Fish disks (assuming the current acceleration in releases continues), plus the workbench, and including the mg editor, arc, zoo, uuencode, uudecode, patch, unshar, and a few other vital tools (like Bard's Tale II and III, for those idle download hours, (WHERE are the Amiga versions?)), [or one day of comp.pictures.amiga postings, take your choice! ;-) ] This could make virtual memory pretty popular in home systems, too, at the right price. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | From: sxm@philabs.Philips.Com (Sandeep Mehta) | Newsgroups: alt.emusic | Subject: erasable optical disk (Re: Hello?) | Date: 8 Jun 88 11:59:53 GMT | Reply-To: sxm@bebop.UUCP (Sandeep Mehta) | Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY | | In article <10642@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> mellon@eris.berkeley.edu (Ted | Lemon) writes: | >I'm here. I suppose this group is about electronic music, judging from | >the title. Doesn't seem to be much activity, though. | > | >Just to stir things up, though, has anybody considered the implications | >of writable compact disks on electronic music? | > | | Philips and DuPont have announced their erasable optical disc, | it has 1 Gbyte capacity, with a 30 msec seek time. I think the primary | target for this technology is mass storage devices. I wonder if this | adds a new dimension to the DAT/CD/LP struggle ? As far as e-music goes | I'd like to see electronic music with digital video on the same disk, the | video disk has only digital audio. | | sandeep | -- | Sandeep Mehta uunet!philabs!bebop!sxm | Philips Laboratories sxm@philabs.philips.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm impressed, that seek time betters by a factor of 1000 the first one I heard from Phillips ten years ago. Way to go! That's a heck of an accomplishment in a mechanical system in so short a time. Kent, the man from xanth. Of course, you'd have to have two drives; nothing else is suitable for backups, and doing a one drive backup with 12 megabytes of Amiga memory is 84 or so disk swaps; bad case of swappers' shoulder from that little trick.