Magnetic Memory making a comeback?

From: Gary Dean Hildebrand <ghldbrd_at_ccp.com>
Date: Wed Jun 11 04:50:01 2003

Jim Davis writes:

> Gooijen H wrote:
>
>> Yep, had read about that a few months ago.
>> See my text on the website:
 snip snip
> IBM reports success with magnetic memory,
> www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1122890,00.asp
> Jim.

I remember when DRAM was 'faster than static RAM, and that was great until
static ram became faster than dynamic. All a matter of technology needing
something and then getting it.

Nowdays fast is the word, with buss speeds over 200 mHz. Sometimes old
ideas need nothing but an update. And of course volatility is a factor here
too.

What I've always wondered is that the main data storage is still
magno-mechanical, not much fundamentally different than storage was in the
50's and 60's with diskpacks. You'd think that a completely electronic
storage would have emerged by now, besides small EEPROMs?

As a humorous sideline: When NASA spent thousands of dollars trying to make
a pen work in zero-G, the Russians simply used a pencil . . . .

Gary Hildebrand
St. Joseph, MO
Received on Wed Jun 11 2003 - 04:50:01 BST