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From: (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: paper vs bits and bytes
Date: 4 Feb 2002 06:22:44 -0600
References: <B880D91F.14934%talthane@hotmail.com>, <pan.2002.02.02.00.32.31.438138.8171@triad.rr.com>, <4hjo5uoul8ssk74kqoug9p42um1tfmllcq@4ax.com>
In article <>, Dennis Lee Bieber <> writes:
> But would it need to be that much? You would have to posit first
> that practically all laser disc technology has been obsolete. Otherwise
> you likely have a ready supply of usable parts -- a laser head capable
> of reading the fine tracks of a DVD is likely to have no problems with
> the broader tracks of a CD, though the stepper motor likely needs to me
> stepped a lot faster.
I think motor speeds will become irrelevant, with more and more reliance
on the memory technology that is used today for making audio CD's seem
"skip-proof". Reading data from the disc into memory at the start will
save power.
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