Storage Media ( was: Seeking reverse-engineers - Apple II VisiCalc )

[Zane H. Healy]

Holographic memory has been right around the corner for *HOW* long? 
I first heard of working prototypes sometime between '88-90.

Zane



At 8:40 PM -0800 1/31/09, Scanning wrote:
>Jim is right ( write ? );
>
>IBM is working on a Lithium Niobate ( LiNbO3 ) Holographic memory that could
>store tens of Terabytes in a chunk the size of a sugar cube. Because of
>optics issues this would have to be a non-removable media for now. Kiss your
>DVDs goodbye. ( reference: LASER Focus World ).
>
>Best regards, Steven
>
>>  Holger Veit wrote:
>>  > BlueRay (which I give 2 years
>>  > until the next technology will be thrown on the customer obsoleting the
>>  > format).
>>
>>  Don't bet on it.  Blu-Ray is the last consumer-deliverable physical
>>  media, which means it is the last consumer archival media.  The entire
>>  entertainment industry has seen the writing on the wall and is moving
>>  toward digital distribution.  There will not be a successor to Blu-Ray.
>>
>>  In the future, we won't be burning to pieces of plastic for archiving.
>>  I fully expect to be archiving exclusively to hard disks in 10 years and
>>  SSDs in 15.  Eventually in 25 years all storage (flash/ssd/hard
>>  disks/tape/BD-R/DVD-R/etc.) will converge into a single technology.
>>  --
>>  Jim Leonard


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