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

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Sunday 01 February 2009 02:11:16 am Zane H. Healy wrote:
> Holographic memory has been right around the corner for *HOW* long?
> I first heard of working prototypes sometime between '88-90.
>
> Zane

Since the fifties,  if you read a lot of SF as I do.  :-)

> 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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