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- From: "jay rymal" <jay.rymal@canrem.com>
- Subject: reasons for amiga cd-
- Message-ID: <199230.4247.24590@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "jay rymal" <jay.rymal@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 30 Dec 92 21:25:03 EST
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- MCL> In article <C023rw.C34#news.iastate.edu>, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N.
- MCL> Barrett):
- MCL> > I don't pay much attention to hype, contrary to what people
- MCL> believe. I
- MCL> > just don't think 1.3 Gigabytes of potential inexpensive storage can
- MCL> be
- MCL> > dismissed very easily. Yes, I said 1.3 Gigabytes. There is no
- MCL> particular
- MCL> > reason why CD-ROM discs cannot be double-sided. They are single-
- MCL> sided now
- MCL> > because the extra storage is not needed.
- MCL> >
- MCL> > ---
- MCL> > | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- MCL> > --------------------------------------------------
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- MCL> ...or to technical matters. CD's are not double sided, because they
- MCL> are _not_
- MCL> records. A CD begins as a _clear_ disc. The reason you can't see
- MCL> through
- MCL> them is because of the _very_dense_ tracks etched into them. The
- MCL> player is
- MCL> able to read them because the laser is refracted (not reflected) by a
- MCL> track.
- MCL> Now, think: If some of the laser light passed _through_ the disk, and
- MCL> hit
- MCL> another surface capable of refracting the laser light (this rules out
- MCL> the
- MCL> printing on disks, since it does not refract - it absorbs), you would
- MCL> get
- MCL> ghosting. Even if this were not the case, having two laser sources,
- MCL> each
- MCL> of which would pass at least _some_ light through the disk, you would
- MCL> still
- MCL> get ghosting (unless you want to spend $$$$ for machines with
- MCL> independently
- MCL> accessible heads, with overlap-avoidance). Either way, "pfpth!"
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- MCL> --
- MCL> +--------8<------Cut Here------8<------Cut Here------8<------Cut Here--
- MCL> -!-----+
- MCL> Mark C. Langston "Secrecy is the beginning of
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- Hmm, I'm no expert, but I thought that the CD was a sandwich of
- aluminum between the plastic. There are pits burned into the aluminum
- that are read as on/off bits by the lazer. If you were right, how do you
- explain the GOLD PhotoCD from Kodak? Tho' I do belive that existing CD's
- are not capable of doublesidedness (New Word, did you get that Webster?)
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- Jay.Rymal
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