From:	Daniel Paddock <D_PADDOCK@****.LVC.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Computers and MP
Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 1994 18:02:58 -0400

>Well, it seems people are forgetting one minor thing. Where the SRII
>books is talking about hermetic libraries, it says how many optical chips
>or compact disks they would take. It says that a CD holds 100Mp. Now,
>the most I've ever seen a CD hold was about 600 megs. This would lead me to
>believe that a megapulse is about 6-7 megs. How does this sound?

Well that depends on wether or not the CD is the same standard as it is today.
It is currently possible to store an entire uncompressed movie on one CD.
However a normal Laseer Disc player couldn't read it since it isn't encoded
the same as a normal consumer LD. I'd imagine that it is totally possible
that a CD in SR could hold around 10000mb making an mp about 100mb.



Dan Paddock