Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

[Stan Barr]

Hi,

ben franchuk <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> said:
> Stan Barr wrote:
> 
> > Work is still in progress.  Shizuka University in Japan recently demoed
> > a device that stores 2000 gigabytes of data in a 1cm cube of material.
> > Reading and writing the data is still too slow for a practical device
> > though.   You could archive a *lot* of data with one! 
> 
> What is too slow.  Paper Tape is slow. :)
> 
> 
They don't say how fast, but imagine how long it would take to read
2000Gb at paper tape speeds :-)
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Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com

The future was never like this!