Optical Storage Technology: A State of the Art Review

This book is the sixth in a series of annual surveys of optical storage technology, concepts, product developments and applications. It includes analyses of read-only and read / write technologies and examines new products under development or introduced during 1990. Available products are categorized, providing the reader with an understanding of their characteristics, advantages and limitations of each. As new products appear on the market readers will be able to relate them to those discussed here. This report should prove invaluable to data processing managers, computer systems analysts, records managers, information specialists, librarians, archivists, and others responsible for the evaluation, planning and implementation of optical information systems for data and document storage.
 
This book is the sixth in a series of annual surveys of optical storage technology, concepts, product developments and applications. It includes analyses of read-only and read / write technologies and examines new products under development or introduced during 1990. Available products are categorized, providing the reader with an understanding of their characteristics, advantages and limitations of each. As new products appear on the market readers will be able to relate them to those discussed here. This report should prove invaluable to data processing managers, computer systems analysts, records managers, information specialists, librarians, archivists, and others responsible for the evaluation, planning and implementation of optical information systems for data and document storage.