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From: stevea@redside.cna.tek.com (Steve Augustine-Student)
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Subject: Re: Blue-light drives?
Date: 9 Aug 1994 08:27:07 -0700
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>>	Maximum storage/transfer rate increased by six magnitudes.
>>	Acceptable storage increased on the order of three magnitudes.
>>	Acceptable xfer rate increased by about 50-100x.
>
>You sure about that? Last I heard (and, admittedly, it WAS only *heard*)
>the storage was increased by 6x, not 10^6 (or even 10^3). Significant, but
>not nearly as much as what you indicate.
>
>The only thing I heard with that kind of increase was an idea about
>combining blue-light & 10 layer CD technology.
>

	Humbled, I am (and a bit red-faced).  I talked again with my 
   friend at OSU yesterday, and he set me strait...  I had another
   technology, a sort of next generation optical card (remember those?)
   confused with the CD-ROM (they both use blue-light laser readers).
   According to him, CD's will hold 100 - 200x more data in the next ten
   years due to a number of new manufacturing processes and, yes, the 
   advent of the blue light laser diode.  Sorry (I musta looked like a
   _real_ moron) for the misinfo.

Steve (I'm a software, not an optical engineer)