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Bob Rosenberg (mailto:rarosenb@RCI.RUTGERS.EDU)
Mon, 21 Apr 1997 21:06:16 -0400

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Date:         Mon, 21 Apr 1997 21:06:16 -0400
From: Bob Rosenberg <mailto:rarosenb@RCI.RUTGERS.EDU>
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

At 10:46 AM 4/22/97 +1000, you wrote:
>Has anyone got an inkling of the cost for these new Video CDs with 9
>gigabytes of storage that Sony and Toshiba seem to be working on? I had
>thought the RAID Tower multiple disc stack memory storage for images might
>be the way to go, but it seems this is an alternative!

Not for a good two years, I'm afraid. DVD is a nice idea--a great idea--and there are drives advertised already, but it will be a while before it is ready for prime time as a recording/storage medium. That is the received technical wisdom, garnered at last week's AIIM expo in New York City.

Robert Rosenberg Thomas Edison Papers Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903 mailto:rarosenb@email.rci.rutgers.edu