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From: tjs@cs.monash.edu.au (Toby Sargeant)
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Subject: Re: Playstation 2 details
Date: 28 Sep 1998 23:44:11 GMT
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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:53:52 +0200, DEnnis Brinkhuis <macsuppor@a1.nl> wrote:
>Toby Sargeant <tjs@cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>
>> What kind of
>> media is it, also? MO, or just plain magnetic media?
>> 
>> Toby.
>
>
>To be exact.. MO is also Magnetic Media..

Hence the 'just plain' :) Given that MO stands for magneto optical...
The thing I _don't_ know, though, is whether reading is done magnetically or
optically. I know that writing is done magnetically, using a laser to heat
the recording media up to allow the polarisation of the individual particles,
but I don't know whhether this causes a magnetic or an optical change in
the media.

Toby.