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- #: 557 S1/General Information
- 27-Apr-88 11:17:37
- Sb: #549-Tandy's Thor CD Advance?
- Fm: Roy S. Laufer 72435,1025
- To: J.S. Frentzen 76117,2127
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- Perhaps it is B.S., but then if I were some hi-tech Seven-Eleven store I'd want
- to proclaim loudly that I've discovered a technological advance that will
- revolutionize data storage technology.
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- Maybe they'd like to line up a bunch of companies to license the technology
- inorder to finance the final steps?
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- We shall see when (and if) other companies start to license the technology!
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- -RSL-
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- #: 558 S1/General Information
- 27-Apr-88 11:17:50
- Sb: #550-TANDY CDROM
- Fm: Roy S. Laufer 72435,1025
- To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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- Predicting long range consumer trends can be fraught with errors. People
- often don't act in consistently rational ways (otherwise LP records would have
- faded into obscurity with the appearance of high fidelity cassette
- recording/playing technology).
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- Irrational humans aside, I agree with you. If Tandy can bring their THOR
- technology to market in the next few years, DAT is dead (does anyone remember
- RCA's old video disc anymore?)!
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- Now, if only those music publishing/recording interests will shut up and
- not try to push lo-fi anti-piracy circuits on the technology!!!!
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- -RSL-
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- #: 559 S1/General Information
- 27-Apr-88 11:18:03
- Sb: #551-TANDY CDROM
- Fm: Roy S. Laufer 72435,1025
- To: Singing Electrons/Tom J. 73717,2261 (X)
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- Emphatically NO!
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- Those specs (100 MB, 18 write cycles) were purely rumors listed on CIS.
- The announcement, which can be found in TandyPro Forum, DL14, THORCD.TXT, is
- very vague! An article in InfoWorld was equally vague. They suggest that the
- storage is not yet equal to conventional CD technology, but they are hopeful to
- reach its capacity. As to the number of write-overs, they state that the limit
- has not been found yet. That sounds strange to me. It seems like an easy
- thing to test. Perhaps they'd like a try at bringing that number up before
- giving it out to the press!
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- -RSL-
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- #: 560 S1/General Information
- 27-Apr-88 11:18:10
- Sb: #552-Thor CD announcement
- Fm: Roy S. Laufer 72435,1025
- To: Singing Electrons/Tom J. 73717,2261 (X)
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- I agree entirely. This is what needed to make a technology which had a great
- future, soon have a great present!!
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- -RSL-
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- #: 561 S1/General Information
- 27-Apr-88 14:40:59
- Sb: I'm a new user!
- Fm: RICH MENARD 75410,316
- To: ALL
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- I'm Rich Menard, Computer Coordinator K-12 for the Rocky Point School Dist.,
- Rocky Point , NY My interest in CDROM is with respect to its use as an
- educational tool for research etc. at the 7-12 grade levels. I'm somewhat
- familiar with databases and the possibilities that CDROMs hold for schools. I
- will be needing to make purchasing decisions in this area in the next 2-3
- months and I do not feel that I know enough at this point to make an
- intelligent decision. Any information will be appreciated and I'll probably be
- asking a lot of "beginner" questions.
-