New IBM system stores 25 times as much data as hard drives

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Fri Jun 14 10:04:31 2002

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Gene Ehrich wrote:

> At 08:33 AM 6/11/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >The technology is being compared to
> >punch cards.
>
> What does that mean?

Because it "punches holes in the substrate" just like with punch cards.
Except you can fit millions of holes per square inch as opposed to about 7
or 8.

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