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- From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Any info on reading Sony EB format?
- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:35:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bx9tqw.EpD@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- References: <95784@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- In article <95784@netnews.upenn.edu> graff@chestnut.ling.upenn.edu (David Graff) writes:
- >Someone handed me a Sony "Electronic Book" compact disc (it's a
- >3.1-inch diameter cdrom delivered in a caddy that looks like a
- >3.5-inch macintosh diskette; the caddy can be opened to remove the
- >cdrom). I'm told this particular disc contains Japanese and English
- >versions of lots of newspaper articles, and I want to move this data
- >onto my Sun's hard-disk.
-
- The short answer is: not at the moment. A company i help out has just
- advertised for a programmer to write software to read these (in effect to
- clone the EB firmware as a DOS/Windows program) and they're originally
- going to be doing it to a new serial (yech) interface coming out soon;
- then there is planned a caddy system that allows the small disks to be
- read in ordinary players. So once you can physically read them you
- probably can do what you want, afer you've decoded the very strictly
- laid-out data. Which without the help of proprietary sony information
- which you have to sign an NDA for will be difficult. (But at least
- unlike Kodak they're relying on trade secret and not patent, so
- it won't be impossible)
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