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- #: 603 S1/General Information
- 04-May-88 14:09:37
- Sb: #Holographic Storage
- Fm: Will Cowman 70003,3254
- To: Anyone
-
- I realize that this is a bit esoteric, but this is a forum devoted to storage
- with light. I read a curious statement about holographic storage recently.
-
- "one can superimpose any number of holograms
- on the same piece of film, and then reproduce
- the images of the original scenes one by one
- without interference from the others."
- (Lashley -- 1982, p. 88)
-
- How can this be? -and- If it is true, then which variable is changed in order
- to "step" through the scenes?
- Just curious,
-
-
- Will
-
- 1 Reply
-
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- #: 604 S1/General Information
- 04-May-88 18:20:46
- Sb: #New member
- Fm: Len Kaltman, Comstock 71401,216
- To: All
-
- Hello, My name is Len Kaltman. I am Director of marketing for Comstock Stock
- Photography. We are producing a CD-ROM (with the help and guidance of
- Discovery Systems) containing 500 photographs for use with desktop publishing
- programs. It was mentioned in the May 3rd issue of MacWeek. If you are
- interested in the disc, or stock photography in general, please don't hesitate
- to drop me a line. Best regards, Len Kaltman
-
- 1 Reply
-
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- #: 605 S1/General Information
- 05-May-88 02:03:07
- Sb: #603-Holographic Storage
- Fm: Erik Sea 74170,111
- To: Will Cowman 70003,3254
-
- I think it is possible. Recall the circular "blow me a kiss" holographic film
- which, if rotated, appears to be animated 3D from one film. The position of
- the observer seems to be the only variable. I have no idea what the technical
- background for it is.
-
-
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- #: 606 S3/CDROM Applications
- 05-May-88 02:22:26
- Sb: PUBLICATIONS ON CDROM
- Fm: John Ausland 73240,2704
- To: Jack Ryan 76164,1273
-
- Thanks for the brochure on your new prices. I have mentioned it on a local
- bulletin board. I suspect few people here are yet ready to make discs, but
- some are thinking about it, and it will come. So keep me informed.
-
- Are you (or anyone else) familiar with the Alde disc which contains the 1986-87
- PRAVDA in English? Does Alde have a COMPUSERVE number?
-
- I am eagerly awaiting discs which contain major US newspapers and periodicals,
- at a reasonable price. I have searched your list but find none. (I am aware
- of the Daily Oklahoman etc, but I have in mind particularly the New York Times
- and Washington Post.) What are the prospects?
-
-
-
- #: 607 S1/General Information
- 05-May-88 03:29:22
- Sb: #592-Ignorant ?s
- Fm: Berkeley MUG 70007,2271
- To: Raymond G. Harder 72160,1373
-
- Ray -
-
- I'm just getting into this industry myself, but I guess I supposedly know
- something, since my company (BMUG) is a CD ROM developer, and I'm doing most of
- the work. ( :-> ). I'll make a stab at a few of your questions.
-
- 1. Yes, current drives can work with Mac and IBM. They need to be SCSI, I
- believe. Check out one from Toshiba --- I've vaguely heard that it is fast.
-
- 2. Search engines vary a lot. There's not much out yet that's universal,
- though lots have been announced.
-
- 3. Beta-test versions of Apple's CDROM driver supposedly supported the "High
- Sierra (ISO)" format used on most PC stuff, but the release drive is supposedly
- gonna ship without it, with a free upgrade not long afterwards.
-
- 4. MacWeek and Macintosh Today claim that the non-autosave HyperCard (they call
- it "version 1.2") will be announced on Friday of this week. They say it was
- shown at last week's Developers conference.
-
- I don't know if it is the "main" holdup on HyperCard-based CDROM's... for our
- product, the BMUG PD ROM(tm), we could have shipped it without a read-only
- HyperCard, just telling the user to copy the relatively small HyperCard stack,
- an index file, to hard disk in order to run it.
-
- 5. Apple's developer price on their CD ROM drive is $740. Academic price is
- typically not far from developer price, IF you're at an AUC (Apple University
- Consortium) school. If not, it's hardly worth it. Shop around.
-
- -- Raines Cohen
- Team BMUG
-
-
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- #: 608 S1/General Information
- 05-May-88 03:30:32
- Sb: #491-HyperCard & CDROM
- Fm: Berkeley MUG 70007,2271
- To: Noboru Toyoshima 76662,330
-
- Noburo -
-
- We've announced the BMUG PD ROM(tm), our PD library on CD ROM, but it looks
- like we won't be shipping for about a month. So long as Apple's drives are
- late, we're OK though.
-
- -- Raines / BMUG
-
-
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- #: 609 S3/CDROM Applications
- 05-May-88 03:33:13
- Sb: #430-ALDE PUBLISHING DISCS
- Fm: Berkeley MUG 70007,2271
- To: bob helfant 75530,214
-
- Bob -
-
- I'm curious about how response has been to a $99 PD disk. We're in that niche
- on the Macintosh world, and shipping shortly. What market segments are you in?
- Do you have anybody perceiving it as "too cheap"?
-
- -- Raines Cohen / BMUG, Inc. (Berkeley Macintosh Users Group)
-
- P.S. Do you guys do anything to promote/license/whatever BBS's who put your
- disc online?
-
-
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- #: 610 S1/General Information
- 05-May-88 03:36:27
- Sb: #604-New member
- Fm: Berkeley MUG 70007,2271
- To: Len Kaltman, Comstock 71401,216
-
-
- Ken -
-
- Welcome to the CDROM forum! I'm always glad to see more fellow "eggs" in the
- basket --- we're all in this together, establishing a base of titles wide
- enough to get the consumers to justify the drives.
-
- Could you post some product info online? I don't remember much from the
- MacWeek article, and your product sounds interesting.
-
- How close are you to shipping? It looks like our PD ROM(tm) is just around the
- corner...
-
- -- Raines Cohen / Team BMUG
-
-
-
- #: 611 S1/General Information
- 05-May-88 03:37:51
- Sb: #595-LAW Titles
- Fm: Berkeley MUG 70007,2271
- To: Joel Nagy 76701,232
-
- Joel -]
-
- Either your message #595 was cut off after the words "Legal Titles:", or you
- are implying that their aren't any. Which is it?
-
- -- Raines / BMUG
- While I'm at it, are there any illegal titles out there? <grin>
-
-
-
- #: 613 S1/General Information
- 05-May-88 09:25:35
- Sb: #598-Microsoft bookshelf
- Fm: Michael G Reed 71420,1707
- To: JIM BESHA 71231,770
-
- Don't know yet whether there are any Bookshelf experts around, but if not I
- have mine running and may be able to help. If someone else doesn't provide
- you with the answer, post your config.sys and autoexec.bat contents...I assume
- something is missing, probably in the A.bat.
-
- Awe, what the heck...take a look at mine:
-
- In Config... DEVICE = C:\CDROM\AMDEK.SYS /N:1 /D:AMDEKCD
-
- In Autoexec... C:\CDROM\MSCDEX.EXE /D:AMDEKCD /M:8
- cls
- C:\CDROM\AUDIOM
- cls
- set CDPATH = C:\BOOKSHLF;C:\CDROM;D:\BOOK;D:\SOFTWARE
- D:\BOOKS
-
- I keep the MS Extension stuff in C:\CDROM, and the following Bookshelf files
- in C:\BOOKSHLF...
-
- BOOKMARK.INF BOOKS .EXE BOOKVIRT.MEM BROWSER .OVR
- CDR .HLP CDR .INS CDR .RES CDR .RSV
- COLOR .OVR CONFIG .OVR CUSTOM .CLR DEFAULT .CLR
- DICT .OVR ET .OVR OPTIONS .OVR SETUP .OVR
- SPELL .OVR SPELL .USR USAGE .OVR WORD .CAP
- WORDTUTR.BAT ZIP .OVR
-
- Help? Let me know as many specifics as possible if it doesn't. -Michael{R}
-