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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
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Subject: Re: Data Storage density questions
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Date: 30 Jul 90 19:06:48 GMT
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In article <10048@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>In article <2635@mindlink.UUCP> a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) writes:
>>    What I am wondering is, has anybody tried to project what might be
>> the maximum possible data density achievable (on a plane)?
>
>Specifically, it would be nice if we scanned a laser beam over the
>media, rather than rotated the media.  Or, at least, did the "head"
>movement that way.  There was hope for this sort of thing, a decade
>ago, and somehow it never happened.  I believe that the best spatial
>modulators had very limited angular effect: perhaps we should be
>trying to shrink the CDROM disks, just as we've been shrinking the
>magnetic disks.

Thought someone was going to do this with Extabyte-like technology, so
you'd get a Terabyte per cartridge on a "tape."