Is this possible? (Storage) (Off-topic?)

From: Van Burnham <van_at_wired.com>
Date: Fri Apr 10 13:14:44 1998

Star Trek is a television show.

Do you really think that this question is appropriate?
Two words... alt.startrek


van




>Sorry, but this has been bugging me for quite some time. In Star Trek, they
>use "Isolinear" based memory circuts to store information in both the short
>and long term. So, from the looks of it, it's some kind of crystal, and can
>transmit it's data very quickly, and with no moving parts, so I'm guessing
>that it's similiar to today's RAM. Now, for the hard part: It can hold
>entire encyclopedia's in tiny amounts. In one episiode, they had nanites,
>little robot-bugs that could hold "gigabytes of information," and were
>microscopic. Furthermore, in some episodes, they find Chodak and T'Kon
>ruins, between 900,000 to 700,000 years old, with half or more of the data
>intact.
> Was crystaline storage ever attempted like this? Is it possible?
>Feasable?
> Thanks,
>
>Tim D. Hotze


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