On Monday 02 February 2009 03:19:41 pm Paul Koning wrote:
>>>> "bfranchuk" == bfranchuk <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
writes:
bfranchuk> Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> On Sunday 01 February 2009 02:11:16 am Zane
H. Healy wrote:
>> Holographic memory has been right around the corner for *HOW*
>> long? I first heard of working prototypes sometime between
>> '88-90.
>>
>> Zane
>
> Since the fifties, if you read a lot of SF as I do. :-)
bfranchuk> I don't think the laser was around back then...
Wikipedia traces the history of lasers back to 1957.
paul
First I remember reading about them was in a library book that was copyright
1960...
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