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In article <505@mks.UUCP> wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:
>Given a WORM drive (I guess one could
>be connected to the SCSI interface) can one write a CD which will play
>on an audio machine?

WORM disks are physically different than CDs, as far as I know.  So unless
the WORM drives change, which probably won't happen in the very near future,
you won't be able to record a standard-format CD.  This isn't to say that
someone won't come up with a device to play WORM disks as you describe.

>I wouldn't mind archiving some of my old 45's. I
>know they would still sound like an old 45, but at least they wouldn't
>get damaged any further.

With a fairly high sampling rate, you can digitize your 45's on a computer
and then store huge datafiles on a WORM for later playback.  A Mega 4 has
enough memory to provide a couple minutes of playback, I would imagine,
more than enough time to load your buffer with the next few minutes.  At
200 megabytes per WORM (at least that's what the WORM at work can store),
that's a few 45's per disk.

Of course, the ST's filesystem isn't what you want to use (even if you could
use it unmodified on a write-once device), since it can't handle more than
sixteen megabytes per device.  I've got a few ideas about what sort of system
you might want to use, but I'll spare you the details unless you want them.

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