re dcc and minidisc next dat dds like st st brownvm brown edu wrote as far as i can tell the md is an offshoot of technology that already exists it is an mo drive mo drives exist already for computers they re expensive and a bit slow but the disks are cheep mb disks dan i read a recent article in personal computer world mainly about the new digit audion formats dcc and md but at the end talked about how nice it would be to use these for data storage with a brief calculation of how much data you could store the author had been talking to someone from sony about these formats and mentioned this to get the reply md is a purely audio format we wouldn t use it for data then when pressed for info about mo the sony man basically admitted that it was no more than a slight adaptabtion on md what i think the original poster was wanting was mo drives at md audio player prices i d assume that the problem here is that an md system can have higher tolerances than an mo system as the ear doesn t pick up the occasional bit error as well as an archiving program david shepherd des inmos co uk tel x inmos ltd aztec west almondsbury bristol bs sq they didn t like the rates they don t like the poll tax and they won t like the council tax nicholas ridley
