Magnetic Memory making a comeback?

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Date: Wed Jun 11 11:28:01 2003

> You'd think that a completely electronic storage would have
> emerged by now, besides small EEPROMs?

FLASH Memory, Solid State Disk Drives, etc. They do now exist.





At 04:42 AM 6/11/03 -0500, you wrote:
>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
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