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From: rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake )
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64 Vs 32
Message-ID: <449@nitrex.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 14:02:17 EST
Article-I.D.: nitrex.449
Posted: Mon Apr 13 14:02:17 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Apr-87 18:52:26 EST
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Reply-To: rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Robin Lake )
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Summary: 100 optical disk jukebox exists

In article <731@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>In article <1498@dg_rtp.UUCP> meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner) writes:
>[ lots of recursive excerpting omitted ]
>> ...
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>For the real data hogs, RCA or Phillips, I forget which, was working on a 100
>video disk "jukebox" for defense data storage back in the late 1970's.  I
>don't know what became of it, but with a times 4 density increase from current
>best, that would be 5 Tbytes in the space of a large disk drive.  Yum.  ;-)
>--

Integrated Automation in Alameda, CA has a 100-disk/200 Gb optical disk juke
box.  I saw it working 2 years ago.  Don't know where they're at with it now.

Rob Lake