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To: Chucky who wrote (4271)11/17/1998 4:51:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid  Read Replies (1) of 10072
 
>>Rocky, won't that also help a Zip250 or Zip100 drive differentiate between the two different disk capacities: kind of like the little hole in the upper left corner HD vs. DD floppies?<<

Yes, exactly, I may not have made this clear. The phosphoresent scheme is in order to differentiate the 250MB disc's capacity from the 100MB, as well as to deter counterfeiting.

>> In what way is it convoluted?<<

It seems to be a ID system made more complicated than necessary to determine which disc is inserted-- and purposely done so in order to deter counfeiting. Although it would seem possible to reverse engineer its wavelength and decay time specs, replicating it legally is probably impossible, and an effort to head off another Nomai debacle.

I didn't say if it was good or bad, just more complicated than necessary.
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