Magnetic Memory making a comeback?

You'd think that a completely electronic storage would have emerged by now, besides small EEPROMs?

Jim Davis writes: snip snip I remember when DRAM was 'faster than static RAM, and that was great until static ram became faster than dynamic. All a matter of technology needing something and then getting it. Nowdays fast is the word, with buss speeds over 200 mHz. Sometimes old ideas need nothing but an update. And of course volatility is a factor here too. What I've always wondered is that the main data storage is still magno-mechanical, not much fundamentally different than storage was in the 50's and 60's with diskpacks. You'd think that a completely electronic storage would have emerged by now, besides small EEPROMs? As a humorous sideline: When NASA spent thousands of dollars trying to make a pen work in zero-G, the Russians simply used a pencil . . . . Gary Hildebrand St. Joseph, MO