14 Jul
2004
14 Jul
'04
8:34 a.m.
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:40, David V. Corbin wrote:
I am well aware that there are significant reasons why
this is a
"non-real-world" comparision [I worked at Veeco Instruments for a numver of
years developing IBE/IBD tools for the manufacturer of disk drive heads].
D'OH! Sorry.
It is just an "interesting" comparision. A
wall of RP06's is less than 0.5%
the capacity of a single IDE/ATA hard drive.
It is highly amusing I agree! The rotating memory in my LGP-21 is 80
bits/inch -- you can *see* 'em if you apply that magnetic dust fluid!
I stopped following disk tech back when Partial Read/Maximum Likelihood
(PMRL) was high tech, which was scary enough. It's getting Deeply Weird
(and utterly normal to those who grow up with it).