Optical storage — is a term from engineering referring to the storage of data on an optically readable medium. Data is recorded by making marks in a pattern that can be read back with the aid of light, usually a beam of laser light precisely focused on a spinning… … Wikipedia
Magneto-optical drive — A Magneto optical disc and the numerous rectangles on its surface. A magneto optical drive is a kind of optical disc drive capable of writing and rewriting data upon a magneto optical disc. Both 130 mm (5.25 in) and 90 mm… … Wikipedia
Magneto Optical Disc — Speichermedium Magneto Optical Disc Magneto Optical Disc von Olympus mit 640 MB Allgemeines Typ magnetisch Kapazität 128 16.700 MB … Deutsch Wikipedia
Magneto Optical Disk — Speichermedium Magneto Optical Disk Magneto Optical Disk von Olympus mit 640 MB Allgemeines Typ magnetisch Kapazität 128 16.700 MB Größe 90 mm (3,5 ) / 120 mm (5,25 ) … Deutsch Wikipedia
Magneto Optical Disk — storage medium which uses magnetic and optical methods to read and write data, MOD (Computers) … English contemporary dictionary
Magneto-optical System — A computer storage system which is a hybrid of optical and magnetic storage systems. A laser is used to heat points on a magnetic disk … International financial encyclopaedia
Advanced Storage Magneto-Optical — [Abk. ASMO, dt. »fortentwickelte magnetooptische Speichereinheit«], wieder beschreibbarer magnetooptischer Datenträger im Format einer CD bzw. DVD, der 1998 von Fujitsu, Hitachi, LG, Matsushita, Maxell, Olympus, Philips, Sharp und Sony… … Universal-Lexikon
optical drive — A high capacity disk storage device that uses a laser to read and write information. Because optical drives are relatively slow, they are used for archiving information and for other applications for which high access speed is not critical … Dictionary of networking
Optical disc — Optical media redirects here. For transmission media for light, see Medium (optics). The optical lens of a compact disc drive. In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc is a flat, usually circular disc which encodes… … Wikipedia
Optical disc recording technologies — Optical discs Optical disc Optical disc drive Optical disc authoring Authoring software Recording technologies Recording modes Packet writing Optical media types … Wikipedia