12 Aug
2004
12 Aug
'04
8:16 a.m.
Hi,
Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> said:
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Stan Barr wrote:
Not necessarily doubting, but was that "stores", or "can store"?
A good question that had me searching through magazines to find the
article where I read about it. It was in "New Scientist" 31 July.
It says "can store". Re-reading the article it seems it may not be
holographic but it uses "..a red laser with a wavelentgh of 79 nm
in a way that controls the shape and spacing of individual bits,
providing clear spacing between them. It is then read using UV light
BTW what
happed to holographic storage anyhow?
Work is still in progress. Shizuka
University in Japan recently demoed
a device that stores 2000 gigabytes of data in a 1cm cube of material.
Reading and writing the data is still too slow for a practical device
though. You could archive a *lot* of data with one! from a helium-neon laser..". How much data
they've *actually* stored
in the device is not mentioned.
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!