sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock) (10/14/88)
From article <4442@polya.Stanford.EDU>, by rothberg@polya.Stanford.EDU (Edward Rothberg):
> Does anyone know where this writeable optical disc came from?
Sony makes the disc (or disk?) drive and NeXT developed the
controlling circuitry for it. There are more details in the Sept. 26
issue of Info World.
Sony officially announced their magneto/optical drive last week.
Sean Brunnockmmc@well.UUCP (Matthew McClure) (10/14/88)
In article <4442@polya.Stanford.EDU> rothberg@polya.Stanford.EDU (Edward Rothberg) writes: >Does anyone know where this writeable optical disc came from? Everything >I had read before yesterday said that writeable/erasable optical discs were >a few years off. Who makes this thing? Is it available on the open >market, or was it developed specifically for the NeXT machine? They said they'd worked with Canon to develop it, and gave the impression that it was developed specifically for NeXT, though they didn't go into much detail. Matthew McClure {pacbell,lll-crg,apple,hplabs}!well!mmc International Technology Development Corporation 1990 Lombard Street, #250, San Francisco, CA 94123 415-929-0924
dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David L. Williams) (10/15/88)
>Does anyone know where this writeable optical disc came from?
Canon provided the technology.
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