Storage Media ( was: Seeking reverse-engineers - Apple II VisiCalc )

Holographic memory has been right around the corner for *HOW* long? I first heard of working prototypes sometime between '88-90. Zane

At 8:40 PM -0800 1/31/09, Scanning wrote: >Jim is right ( write ? ); > >IBM is working on a Lithium Niobate ( LiNbO3 ) Holographic memory that > could store tens of Terabytes in a chunk the size of a sugar cube. > Because of optics issues this would have to be a non-removable media for > now. Kiss your DVDs goodbye. ( reference: LASER Focus World ). > >Best regards, Steven > >> Holger Veit wrote: >> > BlueRay (which I give 2 years >> > until the next technology will be thrown on the customer obsoleting >> > the format). >> >> Don't bet on it. Blu-Ray is the last consumer-deliverable physical >> media, which means it is the last consumer archival media. The entire >> entertainment industry has seen the writing on the wall and is moving >> toward digital distribution. There will not be a successor to Blu-Ray. >> >> In the future, we won't be burning to pieces of plastic for archiving. >> I fully expect to be archiving exclusively to hard disks in 10 years >> and SSDs in 15. Eventually in 25 years all storage (flash/ssd/hard >> disks/tape/BD-R/DVD-R/etc.) will converge into a single technology. -- >> Jim Leonard