Pointless question...

[Dan Roganti]

Brent Hilpert wrote:
> Jules Richardson wrote:
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>> Chuck Guzis wrote:
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>>> On 23 Jul 2008 at 22:08, Scanning wrote:
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>>>> If you want the respect and awe of the group show us your gravitas and use a spool of fibre optic cable as the "media" and blink your data in through an LED or LASER diode. 
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>>> Crikey, I couldn't afford enough fiber to recirculate a megabit
> Typical bit rates for magnetostrictive delay lines used in 1960s-era
> calculators was on the order of 200 - 600KHz. 

There's been some big developments in the past several years on slowing 
the speed of light, for future computer design applications, including 
memory storage. It'll save far more space in your footprint with optical 
fiber. Some experimental solutions have already decreased the speed of 
light to slower than a baseball pitch using a gelled sodium solution 
cooled down to near absolute zero. Maybe you can get your hands on these 
recent new devices, such as the photonic waveguides from IBM which are 
more practical but still need work on reducing the speed even further at 
room temperature. It might be still $$$ too :)
http://tinyurl.com/6s6j96

=Dan

[ Pittsburgh 250th --- http://www2.applegate.org/~ragooman/   ]


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