Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Re-Birth Of The Punchcard?
Posted by Brad Adrian in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 12:49 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/06/11/ibm.storage.breakthrough.ap/index.html
Here's an exciting story on the CNN.com Web site about new advances in storage technology that are being made by IBM. Scientists there say they've developed a new type of storage media that is analogous to the old-fashioned computer punchcard. This newest incarnation however, -- codenamed "Millipede" -- shrinks those familiar holes down to the molecular level.
"IBM said the millipede devices can store one terabit, or a trillion pieces, of data per square inch. The data are stored in tiny sheets of plastic polymer film as tiny indentations just 10 nanometers, or millionths of a millimeter, in diameter...If IBM decides to manufacture millipede-based storage cards -- it has no current plans to do so -- the storage could begin replacing the current silicon-based flash memory cards in handheld computers and mobile phones by the end of 2005."
Can you imagine this?!? A one-terrabit SD card? That's enough to store:
• More than 25 million printed textbook pages
• Nearly 3 months of non-stop, high quality MP3 music
• Almost 4 days' worth of Ed Hansberry's rants on the various Pocket PC discussion boards
Here's an exciting story on the CNN.com Web site about new advances in storage technology that are being made by IBM. Scientists there say they've developed a new type of storage media that is analogous to the old-fashioned computer punchcard. This newest incarnation however, -- codenamed "Millipede" -- shrinks those familiar holes down to the molecular level.
"IBM said the millipede devices can store one terabit, or a trillion pieces, of data per square inch. The data are stored in tiny sheets of plastic polymer film as tiny indentations just 10 nanometers, or millionths of a millimeter, in diameter...If IBM decides to manufacture millipede-based storage cards -- it has no current plans to do so -- the storage could begin replacing the current silicon-based flash memory cards in handheld computers and mobile phones by the end of 2005."
Can you imagine this?!? A one-terrabit SD card? That's enough to store:
• More than 25 million printed textbook pages
• Nearly 3 months of non-stop, high quality MP3 music
• Almost 4 days' worth of Ed Hansberry's rants on the various Pocket PC discussion boards
