Publisher's Synopsis
Selecting those aspects of optical storage techniques and their applications essential for a computer user to know and understand, this book assumes familiarity with computing and ordinary computer applications, but requires no mathematical or engineering background. The book aims to be comprehensive at its chosen level of treatment, and recommends reading for those interested in further investigation into such aspects as the design of error-correcting codes. The standards for optical storage - where progress has been somewhat slow except for the CD-ROM standard - are fully covered.
