Subj : Re: Reg methods
To   : Scott Adams
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Oct 10 2001 12:22 am

Hi Scott.

07-Oct-01 14:45:52, Scott Adams wrote to Jasen Betts



 SA>> Credit-card cd-roms?  Maybe I'm missing something.

 JB>> a little CD-rom about the size of a credit-card they can hold
 JB>> more than 10 megs, and don't cost much to mail. an 8cm cd-rom
 JB>> will also fit in a standard envelope.

 SA> Interesting.  I do recall now hearing something about them a few
 SA> years ago but not since.  Must've forgotten them.  I'll have to
 SA> check into that for sure.  But the problem is the end user has to
 SA> have the same drive or are there like tape drive to regular floopy
 SA> drive converters drives?

They'll fit in any tray type Cd-rom drive that has the "inner groove"
(as will the 8cm, cd-single sized, discs)

AFAIK the slot-type (trayless) cd-rom drives can only use round CD-ROM so
cropped formats like the credit-card shape. won't work in them.

 -=> Bye <=-

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