At 12:18 PM 4/12/98 -0700, you wrote:
>A few years back I read a facinating article on holographic storage
systems.
>Where the medium was a 'slide sized' wafer
and was recorded and read
>holographically using a laser beam. Being holographic in nature the
denisty
>was way more then magnetic disc or CD. That was
the closest that I've
read to
Star Trek like
storage.
There was a nice feature in Scientific American a few years back about
holographic storage. Early 1995 i believe, possible 96.
I remember last summer,
there was something in CNN about Berkley (or one
of those California universities that you'd associate with
computers/technology) Developing a blue laser. This could radically change
everything, including DVD.
Ciao,
Tim D. Hotze