I've received a CD-ROM like that.
Interestingly enough, the track fragmentation resulting from such a shape
has no effect on readability.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Gregory Peterson
> Sent: November 08, 2000 12:26
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:9076] 80 mm CD-ROM
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>
> A co-worker of mine was at his bank today and they gave him an 80
> mm (diam) CD-ROM cut at two parallel tangents so that the narrow
> side (58 mm) resembled that of a standard credit-card.
>
> Apparently it has bank-related web addresses on it.
>
> I was wondering if anybody else has seen such a disk. The first
> thing I did when I saw it was to see if it was hard metric or
> hard-Wombat and I was pleasantly suprised.
>
> greg :)
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