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    A magneto-optical drive is a kind of optical disc drive capable of writing and rewriting data upon a magneto-optical disc. 130 mm (5.25 in) and 90 mm (3...
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    In computing, an optical disc drive (ODD) is a disc drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as part...
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    In atomic, molecular, and optical physics, a magneto-optical trap (MOT) is an apparatus which uses laser cooling and a spatially-varying magnetic field...
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    CD-RW (category Optical computer storage media)
    other magneto-optical formats. Reading the discs relied on the Kerr effect a major format flaw. The rewrite could only be read in special drives and was...
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    known as CD-ROM. In 1983, Philips introduced their early work on magneto-optical drive technology at an industry conference. This used a laser to warm...
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    magnetic field on the surface from these changes in polarization. Magneto-optical (MO) drives were introduced in 1985. MO discs are written using a laser and...
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  • secular world .mo, country code top level domain of Macau Magneto-optical drive (magneto-optical storage), a data storage medium Microsoft Office, an office...
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    Sony to replace the Magneto-optical disc format. An Ultra Density Optical disc, or UDO, is a 133.35 mm (5.25") ISO cartridge optical disc which can store...
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    ATAPI (redirect from ATAPI drive)
    CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives, tape drives, magneto-optical drives, and large-capacity floppy drives such as the Zip drive and SuperDisk drive. ATA was originally...
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  • collection of hardware elements". Citing as "truly innovative" the optical drive, DSP and object-oriented programming environment, it concluded that...
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    development and are not yet widely available. The earliest form is magneto-optical, which uses a magnetic field in combination with a laser to write to...
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    Ultra Density Optical (UDO) Professional Disc for DATA (PDD or ProDATA) Holographic memory 3D optical data storage Magneto-optical drive (MO) Holographic...
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    with a 68040 processor, a hard disk in place of the magneto-optical drive, and a floppy disk drive. NeXT offered a 68040 system board upgrade (and NeXTSTEP...
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    with a laser diode in an optical disc drive that spins the disc at speeds of about 200 to 4,000 RPM or more, depending on the drive type, disc format, and...
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  • J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z See also References External links magneto-optical drive mainframe computer An especially powerful computer used mainly by...
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    (September 19, 1989). "Developers split over optical drive (NeXT Inc's 256Mbyte erasable magneto-optical drive)". MacWEEK. p. 3.n33. "COMPANY NEWS; Businessland...
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    Floptical (category Optical computer storage)
    portal Engineering portal Magneto-optical drive SuperDisk (LS-120) Zip drive Webber, Julie (1988-08-15). "Insite's "Floptical" Drive to Increase Storage Capacity"...
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    disk drive (PA-82002), a Deltis 230 MO Docking Turbo (MOS330P) with a 230 MB magneto-optical disk drive that is manufactured by Olympus Optical Co. Ltd...
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    technology) SuperDisk (floppy-like with drives also compatible with 3.5" floppy disks) Magneto-optical drive (floppy-like, but incompatible medium using...
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  • magneto-optical drive became commercially available, which used essentially the same technique for writing data to a disk. One advantage of magneto-optic...
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  • Mass storage (redirect from Computer drive)
    drives such as hard disk drives (HDDs), magnetic tape drives, magneto-optical disc drives, optical disc drives, memory cards, and solid-state drives (SSDs)...
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    CD-ROM (redirect from CD-ROM drive)
    read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data computers can read, but not write or erase...
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    3D optical data storage is any form of optical data storage in which information can be recorded or read with three-dimensional resolution (as opposed...
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    based on magneto-optical Kerr effect. The magnetic medium are typically amorphous R-Fe-Co thin film (R being a rare earth element). Magneto-optical recording...
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    Optical disc authoring, including CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc authoring, is the process of assembling source material—video, audio or other data—into the...
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    transitional period. Magneto-optical drives use sector sizes of 512 and 1024 bytes on 5.25-inch drives and 512 and 2048 bytes on 3.5-inch drives. In CHS addressing...
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    optical drive was developed and supplied by Panasonic, a founding member in the Blu-ray Disc Association. It is not clear whether the Wii U Optical Disc...
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    Hi-MD (category Optical computer storage)
    Hi-MD is a magneto-optical disc-based data storage format. It was a further development of the MiniDisc. With its release in later 2004, came the ability...
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  • tape drives may be used for backup. Digital optical media: In addition to compact disc and DVD optical media, storage systems may use magneto-optical drives;...
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  • Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback Machine Paromtchik, I. E. (2006). "Optical Guidance Method for Robots Capable of Vision and Communication" (PDF)....
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