Bill Houle wrote:
>
> 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!
*rofl* One of every two or three CDs I get in the mail has been crushed
and cracked.
I defy anyone to make one of these that can actually be kept (usefully)
in the average wallet. Shirt pocket, maybe. (Though there it will
certainly be scratched by my PalmIII.)
> 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...
Given this (very true) point, one wonders what the driving force is,
other than cuteness. I get handed CDs on a regular basis everywhere I
go anymore. They fit nicely into my bag, and are big enough not to lose
or squish.
By the time you add a protective sleeve to this and bulk it up, there's
not much advantage to it beyond the cool factor . . . especially since
the price is almost 40% (or more) more than bulk CDs.
B
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