I picked this up in a lot recently. I can barely find any information on it at all. From what I gather it is data related to the medical industry...information on prescription drugs and what not. It is dated 1984-1985 and I can't find any mint marks on it.

I submitted it to the database and would like to know how one could even access the data on something like this. Probably takes more equipment than what the average LD fan has lying around I'm guessing.

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EDIT - Added "quick and dirty" video. I don't have my capture system setup right now so it is just a crappy video from my camera.

Interesting! What does it do when you play it? I figure it's probably a regular Laserdisc with PCM data encoded in the video track. From what I can tell they switched to CD-ROM not long after this...

edit: Found a tad more on Laserdata in a book on Google - it holds 800MB/side, not bad. It used a V1000 and an external PCM decoding box, aparently.

edit2: If I had the specs for the encoding format (especially data correction!) and a disc with something I wanted to decode, I could definitely decode it.

It appears one side is blank. An hour pcm data is roughly 500mb. It would be significant data for the era.

The first few seconds are a sequence of colored patterns then it just goes into white and black data-ish noise. I will work on getting a video of that tonight if it will help.

Just what I thought, then... it should be possible to decode them with a lossless (HuffYUV or like) capture, and probably the specs if they still exist.

Not something I'm really up for doing, but it's an interesting exercise for somebody, I imagine...

Yikes. Not something I'm really up for myself either. Got a few hundred other titles to watch first. Now, if it were something cold-war-esque that would be a little more interesting.