At 07:33 PM 11/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I would question your first point... ;)
>
>Agree that write speed would be less than read speed; however if you
>consider that a MD recorder can accept a streaming digital input of CD
>quality audio (via the optical in), encode it with ATRAC, AND write it to
>the disk, all in real-time - then i think you'll find the bandwidth of the
>system quite sufficient for removable media purposes on a PC. Plus the
>benefit of the disks not being as easily affected (as floppies) by magnetic
>fields....it all adds up...
Mind you that 44.1 KHz stereo 16 bits is only 176 Kb/s and that ain't much
at all, granted a normal floppy drive is slower, but a decent Zip drive can
easily manage 600 Kb/s
>In any case it would be vastly better than floppy drive technology which
>should have been obseleted years ago...
Due to a high error ratio of a minidisc (which isn't a problem for audio)
it is not as suitable for data as you'd think, which leads to a lot of
redundancy, ie the disk will probably be much less than 140 Mb, more like
100-120
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