Ed, I think your friend watched too many James Bond movies, or was putting the wrong sugar tabs in his coffee. While many have waxed lyrical about the theory of doing this by reading the edges of a track, it has never been done successfully (at least in the public domain). Either that, or he was carrying a Scanning Tunneling Microscope around in his pocket.
Ron > also whiz > bang (he never gave me specifics) way of reading what was underneath what was > current on the track. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
