Re: The mythical 1GB card.

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From: Dave Goldblatt
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 14:33

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On 3 Aug 92 01:37:37 GMT, nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) said:

JN>        There have been a number of attempts at very high density,
JN> low cost optical media, but none really work yet.  Remember THOR,
JN> the Tandy read/write compact disk unit?  They showed prototypes,
JN> but apparently couldn't get the thing to work reliably in
JN> production volume with low-cost blank media.

My understanding of what happened to THOR was that Tandy ran into
patent problems with the dye they were using; someone had patented it
(for another purpose) and then wanted very large royalties per player.

Maybe someone from trsvax can shed some more light on it.. :-)

-dg-
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