At 12:42 AM 6/1/00 -2300, Tony Duell wrote: Hmm, a few messages back I was wondering if today's low-price LED laser printers had a dense linear array of LEDs that exposed the drum, and that this array could be used to print a matrix to the film. I've mentioned http://www.paperdisk.com/ before, perhaps some would like to revisit this technology. The problem is, laser-print melted plastic "ink" sticks to itself, and to paper, and suffers when the enclosing medium is out-gassing volatiles... I like the ideas about digitizing the stream of raw disk data. I imagine it would be possible to perform some software-based analysis and repair, rendering previously scrogged disks readable. Or perhaps the forensic-style recovery of erased data, reading and averaging adjacent off-center track information. I seem to remember a PDP guy on this list who recovers reel tape data this way, digitizing the raw tracks and processing with software, as opposed to relying on antique hardware methods for decoding the stream. I wish this technology existed for other media, too. I have several hours of out-of-alignment video from a camcorder whose capstans were drifting over the course of months and years. The precious video of my young kids is now unreadable except at random when the position of the heads happens to float into the alignment of when that segment was recorded. - John