Re: [ARSCLIST] Clarifying the MAM-A gold comment

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

Tom Fine wrote:
> I am actually somewhat surprised that there isn't a large enough medical 
> and mil-spec market for high-quality data storage that a manufacturer 
> would have enough critical mass right there. Tack on 
> archvies/institutions and the music "business" (in quotes because it is 
> quickly becoming the opposite of a business model if business model = 
> profitable and long-term) and it seems there's room for a quality niche. 
> Why not?
>
> -- Tom Fine

I think it much more likely that such a market would exist if it found 
common ground. I don't know whether there is or could be a 
defense-related market though I spent decades in the field, but the 
common interests of archivists and medical recordists seem not to have 
been exploited. In all our rambling (okay, *my* rambling and others' 
focussed efforts), no one seems to have popped up to say he's tested or 
used medical media.

Mike
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