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Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 04/22/06 23:13
On 4/22/2006, Roy L. Fuchs posted this:
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:15:20 -0700, Gene E. Bloch
> <spamfree@nobody.invalid> Gave us:
>
>>
>> I knew that some people said they were doing holographic storage, but I
>> thought it was in a lab scenario only (and I wasn't even sure I
>> believed the reports). Also, I do remember products that were vaporware
>> for years until they ... evaporated. So, cynicism, justified or not, in
>> this case too.
>
> Oh no. These guys were featured articles in machine design and
> engineering publications. It is coming down the pike.
>
> I figured by now we would have holo-cubes. The can read an entire
> page in one pass, and there are several thousand pages in a cube.
> Some guys recorded 10GB on a roll of shipping tape in Germany a few
> years ago. Two lasers are needed. These guys' holographic recording
> medium on disc are going to win out first, but holo-cubes are also in
> the pipe. They can act like write once, read many RAM cubes.
Better than an iPod for sure! Thanks for enlightening me.
Many years ago I had an argument with a folk-dance teacher - I thought
that someday his entire library of dance records (only 78s, 45s, and
LPs, back then) would fit in a 1" cube. He pooh-poohed me, but I
thought I was right.
Well, today even a 20GB iPod or MP3 player would probably hold his
collection. OTOH, the holocube would enable him to expand his horizons
from Eastern Europe to Mongolia, Ghana, Turkey, China, and on and on
....
Gino
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