[Coco] Totally OT: Terabit memory device

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

At 08:08 AM 7/15/04 -0400, Dave Kelly wrote:
>That idea was also the basis of a sci-fi short story about 20 years 
>before that. As I remember the story
>memory storage has outstripped data production and they had managed to 
>get all data, past and present,
>stored on 1 sugar cube size device and true to the nature of man, lost 
>the access key.

That terabit/byte sugar cube just keeps comin' around on the old
development guitar:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/26/HNreveo_1.html
http://www.rl.af.mil/div/IFB/techtrans/datasheets/3DOptMem.html
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/holographic-memory1.htm

...and about 1,500 other references.

Just give me the cool crystals on Babylon 5 that I can wave my hands at....

Dennis