Labels:text | circle | font OCR: ot so long ago, a computer Nequipped with a 400 Mb tage for SPECIAL REPORT SOLUTION archiving pur- hard disk was considered poses, as the extravagant. How could one even data is incorruptible. come close to filling it? TO RISING Today a single compact disk or CDs will also last much longer than other media." CD can hold up to 650 Mb of data. STORAGE With the advent of multimedia, soon Writing data to a CD is not yet as easy as writing to a hard disk, but the average computer user will NEEDS Pacific Media tackled this problem need all that space and more. two years ago, when CD-ROM tech- Many large institutions are al- nology was still In its infancy. ready replacing their microfiche and microfilm archives with CDs. By DONNA WARD "For large duplication jobs, it's still more cost-effective to produce There are many advantages to doing this, says a master and copies using the stamping method," Hank Banquer of Pacific Media, although legal issues have yet to be resolved. "When they first says Banquer. "We use an Australian company called Disctronics for this purpose. We can also look at CDs as a produce lower volumes in- storage medium, house using a desktop CD some companies writer." are concerned at Pacific Media now the write-once- provides an output serv- read many times ice to companies wishing NIPPON PAINT constraint," Ban- to produce customised quer says. "Actu- CDs. Its customer base is ally it's an advan- split about evenly between
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