On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:01:08AM +0200, Anders Carlsson wrote:
> Heh. I read that Philips and MCA released the first Laserdiscs to 
> customers in 1978. Imagine if Commodore would have jumped on that ship 
> and made a PET LD player. I don't know for what though, as I believe 
> those discs mostly are used for audiovisusal content, not so much program 
> data.

They could have encoded digital data like in tape drives.  Actually,
I remember reading about devices that let you use video tape for data
storage, on a PC or Amiga, I think.  And there was at least one CD filled
with C64 tape games in the late 1980s.

	Marko

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