Subj : Re: Reg methods
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Scott Adams
Date : Sat Oct 20 2001 07:00 pm

 -=> Quoting Jasen Betts to Scott Adams <=-

 JB> @MSGID: 3:640/531.42 df3c7fdc
 JB> Hi Scott.

 JB> 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?

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

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

        Yeah...I hate the trayless type.  Not sure why they
        even make them.  Not many get them these days
        as far as I see...



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