16 Mar
2006
16 Mar
'06
6:21 a.m.
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Antonio Carlini wrote:
STMs couldn't read through the substrate - you'de be reading the texture
of the bottom of the disc, not the pits. You need to use a scanning
optical microscope, or just a CD-like read head that can scan in 2
dimensions.
Alexey
So, could one
do the same with a CD-R?
I imagine that a decent STM could read the individual pits on
the parts that are left. Whether that is enough to reconstruct
anything meaningful is debatable. I don't have access to a handy
STM to try, but I'm told they're not hugely expensive.