Word: disces
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Price too has inhibited the spread of the discs. Computer CD drives cost about $800, and software publishers are charging up to $50,000 for CD versions of especially valuable data. But strangely enough, audio CDs may be coming to the rescue. Says David Davies of Minnesota's 3M company, which produces about half of the world's compact discs for computers: "Without the CD music market, data CDs would not exist. The hardware would be too expensive." The intense competition to produce music CDs, he explains, will spill over to the CD data field, forcing down the costs...
...game is the same--put the five-and-three-quarters-oz. frozen disc of vulcanized rubber into a four-by-six-ft. goal, while defending a 60-ft. attacking zone. It's just another hockey game in historic Boston Garden. But it all feels different, somehow...
More than 60 million words have been stored ona five and three-quarter inch compact disc whichlooks identical to those discs which play music,says Theodore Brunner, a professor of classics whochairs the Irvine group called the ThesarusLinguae Graecae project...
...Perseus project would result in theproduction of the discs for approximately $50. Inaddition to containing heavily annotated directsources from Greek literature, the disc wouldcontain 10,000 images...
...spokesman for the agency giving the moneysays that the money is the second stage of acontract which will result in a test disc at theend of a year. Crane said he expectsmass-production of the disc in three years, whichwould require more grant money