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

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Monday 02 February 2009 03:19:41 pm Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "bfranchuk" == bfranchuk  <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> writes:
>
>  bfranchuk> Roy J. Tellason wrote:
>  >> 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.  :-)
>
>  bfranchuk> I don't think the laser was around back then...
>
> Wikipedia traces the history of lasers back to 1957.
>
> 	  paul

First I remember reading about them was in a library book that was copyright 
1960...

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