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Laser optical disk: the coming revolution in on-line storage

By Larry Fujitani
Communications of the ACM, June 1984, Vol. 27 No. 6, Pages 546-554
10.1145/358080.358094
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Commercially available only recently, the optical disk drive uses a laser beam to burn impressions onto a plastic disk. Employing a highly focused beam rather than a diffuse magnetic field to write, the laser optical disk drive yields storage densities up to 10 times those of magnetic disks.

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