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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!sugar!peter
- From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:13:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <C03vrC.79J@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <1hqcs4INN4tb@pith.uoregon.edu> <1992Dec29.221442.7137@pro-freedom.cts.com>
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- In article <1992Dec29.221442.7137@pro-freedom.cts.com> eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:
- > > But as for CD-ROM being THE future, that's bologna.
-
- > Why does this remind me of the comments made by a past president of I.B.M.?
- > Something to the effect that "...this company will concentrate on
- > typewriters and adding machines, since the entire world's need for
- > computers is about 5 machines..."... or words *very* close to that.
- > Pioneering vision, in either case. MHO, of course. ;-)
-
- As opposed to arguing for the equivalent of *electric* typewriters?
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- Read-write mini-CDs hit the market this year. They're going to destroy
- casettes.
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- Read-write full-size CDs will show up pretty soon. They will be compatible with
- read-only CDs (the players will play conventional CDs, but the read-write
- CDs probably won't play in conventional players).
-
- Say bye-bye to your steam-powered horseless carriage. CD-ROM is a transition
- technology.
- --
- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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