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Re: Bizzare cdrom drive for a wearable

It's accessed in a special cdrom drive, not a standard unit. I've seen
these.. neat product, unfortunately the 5K price tag on the reader will
keep it in the vaporware catagory.

On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, joshua . wrote:

> my roommate went to comdex in April at chicago.. 
> he said they had a business card with weights on it.. 
> that held 180 Mb of data and could be accessed in a cdrom drive
> 
> don't know how this applies.. : )
> 
> (long-time ghost in the shell fan)
> 
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> >On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 02:03:54PM -0400, Timothy D. Gray wrote:
> >> Great! the unit holds the cd's in a caddy. Ya know, why isn't 
> development
> >> on CD-ROM not following the same routes as floppys and tapes did?  
> smaller
> >> is better, and I'd bet a 3"DVD cd would hold quite a bit! Sony makes 
> the
> >> minidisk player/recorder.. which is a great advancement in audio
> >> technology and i'd bet it wouldn't take much to make it into a data 
> R/W
> >> device as the audio is stored as digital info to begin with. Typical 
> of
> >> manufacturers, ignore better and improve the old. :-/ although 5 inch 
> cd's
> >> are better than the old 12" platters I remember for Laserdisc!
> >> 
> >I just got a call back from the shop where I buy all my blank CD's, 
> they
> >called all their suppliers, and several of them said they used to make 
> 3"
> >blanks, but not anymore....   Sorry....   As far as CD's taking the 
> same
> >route as floppies, there was an article a couple of months ago (maybe 
> in
> >Popular Science?) that talked about a company working on CDs the size 
> of
> >a dime that held some ungodly amount of data (20 gigs if I remember
> >correctly), but that could just be vapor...
> >
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