Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

From: Stan Barr <stanb_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Thu Aug 12 15:20:11 2004

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 :-)
-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Thu Aug 12 2004 - 15:20:11 BST

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