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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
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Subject: Re: Memory cube
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Date: 3 May 91 23:49:51 GMT
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In article <1991May01.184830.12997@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> bucacs@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler) writes:
>
>		'Memory cube' magnifies computer power
>			by Lee Siegel
>		    Associated Press
>
>	Los Angeles-Scientist have developed a 3-D computer memory system
>they say could store the contents of 400,000 books or 3,000 personal computers
>on a piece of plastic smaller than a sugar cube.
>	So far, researchers have used laser beams to store only 1000 bits...
>inside the prototype. But the memory cube ultimately could store 1 trillion
>bits of data, Rentzepis said in an interview. However, years of work are
>required to improve the new memory system so it can be commercially available
>in computers, he added.
>[...etc...] 
>Comments anyone?

Well, a company in Texas has a holographic imaging system that far surpasses
this cube in terms of current development, projected data storage, and
perhaps information transfer rate (although I didn't see that in your
article.)  They have a working version, and they are scheduled for a first
"real" version by 1992 and commercial by 1995.
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