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From: wbeebe@bilver.UUCP (bill beebe)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: quest for breakthroughs (long)
Keywords: architecture, breakthrough, technology, backup
Message-ID: <426@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 17:20:43 GMT
References: <740@tetons.UUCP> <1809@indetech.UUCP> <3607@mipos3.intel.com>
Reply-To: wbeebe@bilver.UUCP (bill beebe)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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In article <3607@mipos3.intel.com> kds@blabla.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker) writes:
>Actually, what I would like is a three-dimensional read/write optical storage 
>device.  Imagine gigabytes of storage in a 1" lucite cube.  Doubles as a
>paperweight.

Well, you should read the article February 1989 _BYTE_, "Digital Paper",
by Dick Pountain. Bernoulli Optical Systems Corp (BOSCO, the chocolate
syrup people), is using a new type of optical storage media to create
a one gig floppy disk. Paper is something of a misnomer as the material is
made of a flexible polymer sandwich. When I say thin, I mean the about the
thickof a stiff piece of paper. BOSCO says they can put the equivalent
of a double-sided WORM drive with a gigabyte of storage capacity in the same
space as a 5.25" half-height. *Removeable*. Besides, if you get a cable long
enough from the PC, it can still double as a paper weight.