[Coco] Totally OT: Terabit memory device

[Stephen Blunt]

I remember my boss reading that article in some magazine (engineering?) in
Australia. It would have been 1992 or later. Haven't heard anything since.


Stephen Blunt
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> Back in 1991 or 1992, I read an article in the Orange County Register
> (California) about a new memory device that was being 
> developed by a chemist at UCI.  It was about the size of a 
> sugar cube and had no moving parts, somehow using a mesh of 
> lasers to read and write. Storage capacity was about a 
> terabit. The access speed was comparable to RAM at the time. 
> The article went on to say it would take about a decade to 
> get it to market. The ten year mark was passed a couple years ago.
> 
> Has anyone heard anything about it? Are they ready to test it?
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