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- From: swinokur@cellar.org (Steve Winokur)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <8m4LwB1w164w@cellar.org>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 20:19:30 GMT
- References: <C023rw.C34@news.iastate.edu>
- Sender: bbs@cellar.org (The Cellar BBS)
- Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system
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- barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
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- > I don't pay much attention to hype, contrary to what people believe. I
- > just don't think 1.3 Gigabytes of potential inexpensive storage can be
- > dismissed very easily. Yes, I said 1.3 Gigabytes. There is no particular
- > reason why CD-ROM discs cannot be double-sided. They are single-sided now
- > because the extra storage is not needed.
-
- There's a very important reason why CD-ROMS are single sided...
-
- If they were double sided there'd be no cool place for silkscreening
- to go!
-
- Besides, wouldn't you need a drive with two pickups... and the disk
- would have to spin in the other direction?
-
- >
- > ---
- > | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- > --------------------------------------------------
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