Objective Rewritable drives are expected to become the major source of revenue for optical system manufacturers within the next five years. Intensive work has been done by the consortium during its first period of activity to establish a European technology for optical media, heads and drives. The baselines of this programme consist in the development of two magneto-optical drives: a 3.5 inch drive with a capability higher than 200 Mbyte, and a 5.25 inch drive of 5 Gbyte.Medium-term goals (1989-92) - Development of a 3.5 inch magneto-optical medium for the current and next generation of data storage systems with improved functional specifications, including partial ROM. - Realisation of a new 3.5 inch magneto-optical disc drive complying with the extended ISO standard, with capacity > 200 Mbyte, access time < 50 ms, SCSI/AT interfaces, average data transfer rate > 0.5 Mbyte/s, and a partial ROM zone. - Completion of an integrated optical head. - Media development for direct overwrite (RE-TM and oxide media). - Mock-up of a 5.25 inch multiplatter erasable optical drive with a storage capacity of 5 Gbyte, access time < 40 ms, SCSI interface, and an average data transfer rate higher than 2 MB/s. Programme(s) FP3-ESPRIT 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of information technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Société d'Applications Générales d'Électricité et de Mécanique Address 6 avenue d'iena 75783 Paris France See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Centre d'études de grenoble 17 avenue des martyrs 38041 Grenoble See on map Coventry University United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Priory street CV1 5FB Coventry See on map NEDERLANDSE PHILIPS BEDRIJVEN BV Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address Prof. holstlaan, 4 5656 AA Eindhoven See on map PHILIPS DUPONT OPTICAL Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address Buizerdlaan, 2 3435 SB Nieuwegein See on map
