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- From: sjchmura@kimbark.uchicago.edu (steven joseph chmura)
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.064025.18208@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago
- References: <1hqcs4INN4tb@pith.uoregon.edu> <1992Dec29.221442.7137@pro-freedom.cts.com> <C03vrC.79J@NeoSoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:40:25 GMT
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- In article <C03vrC.79J@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >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.?
- >
- >Read-write mini-CDs hit the market this year. They're going to destroy
- >casettes.
- Well, yeah, since the price of the players is sooooo cheap :)
-
- >
- >Read-write full-size CDs will show up pretty soon. They will be compatible with
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- They do exist in labs in Chicago :)
- >read-only CDs (the players will play conventional CDs, but the read-write
- >CDs probably won't play in conventional players).
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- With the estimated cost of these things in the thousands, the incompatibility
- of the recorded CD's, and the price of the medium, don't you think that
- future is far off? For the masses, are they really going to here a difference
- between cheap DCC/MiniDiscs and expensive (not to mention huge)
- recordable 5.25" CD's?
- >
- >Say bye-bye to your steam-powered horseless carriage. CD-ROM is a transition
- >technology.
-
- Well, then so is chemotherapy. But it is the best we have at a price
- we can afford :(
-
- >--
- >Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
- > `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi táΣnáΣáΣn?
- > 'U`
- >Tarjoilija, táΣmáΣ ateria eláΣáΣ vieláΣ.
-
-
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- ________________________________________________________________________________Steven Chmura University of Chicago Medical School(M1)
- "Given enough time, the impossible becomes probable, and the probable
- inevitable.." -George Wald, "On the Origins of Life"
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