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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Data Storage density questions
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Date: 28 Jul 90 12:22:39 GMT
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In article <2635@mindlink.UUCP>, a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) writes:

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>     What I am wondering is, has anybody tried to project what might be
>  the maximum possible data density achievable (on a plane)?

Several years ago, I remember hearing that the densest storage material
by far was photographic film.  Unfortunately, the positioning problem
made it almost impossible to read quickly.  Densities of 10^8 bits/sqare
inch were available then, and presumably this could be increast by a
few powers of 10.

What is the situation now?  Has any progress been made in this direction?
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
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