franko said:
>
> At 20:16 20/10/98 -0700, Andreas Ramos wrote:
> >whoa! with 18 MB, this would be spectacular for handing out demos of one's
> >products, etc.
> >___________________________________________________
>
> Ok, maybe I'm a bit thick but isn't this just a scaled-down CD ROM.
Not having seen one, I can only go by the description in the
article. I believe it to be that the novelty is in the shape. Do you
understand that it is a rectangle? Fits nicely in a wallet. Try that
with a traditional CD!
On the technical side, hold a biz card up to a CD and look at how
much "platter" you have outside the clear plastic of the spindle ring.
Not much. Now, I'm assuming the CD will not 'track' off the edge of
the rectangle and then reacquire on the other side. The laser has to
track in concentric circles, and given the size of a biz card, you
don't have too many millimeters of concentric circles available. 18Mb
is pretty good all things considered...
--bill
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