[Coco] Re: Totally OT: Terabit memory device

[Roger Taylor]

At 08:43 AM 7/18/2004, you wrote:
>While apparently not the fabled cube, in a Jeff Harrow newsletter, either 
>_The_Rapidly_Changing_Face_of_Computing_ or the _Harrow_Report_, sometime 
>a few years ago told of a LAB that recorded several terabytes of data on a 
>roll of standard cellophane tape, and was able to retrieve the data.

This doesn't surprise me.  We are way too far behind in this 
technology.  You should read up on molecular computing and storage.  Until 
we get that on our desktop, things will just keep getting smaller and 
smaller.  I'll be glad when the silliness of the rotating disc/disk/platter 
finally dies away.  We had laser disc movies back in the late 70's.  Here 
it is 2004 and that technology has only gotten smaller, with more layers 
possible, etc.  I'll be thrilled when we can take a credit card-sized 
device and burn onto it everything we own in multimedia.



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Roger Taylor