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IBM Reinvents Punch Cards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the plus-ca-change dept.

grim_thing writes "I.B.M. scientists say they have created a data-storage technology that can store the equivalent of 200 CD-ROM's on a surface the size of a postage stamp. Writing in the current issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, researchers at I.B.M.'s laboratories in Zurich report that they have achieved a storage density of one trillion bits of data per square inch, about 25 times as great as current hard disks." Reuters also has a story.

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  1. One potential security flaw. . . by Limburgher · · Score: 5, Funny

    What if one's data contains dimpled chads? How will those bits be counted?

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  2. 200 CD-Roms? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can we get that translated into a tandard measurement, like Library's of Congress?

  3. 1984... by StupidKatz · · Score: 5, Funny

    1984: Wow! Twenty megabytes! I'll never use all this space!
    1988: Wow! Eighty megabytes! I'll never use all this space!
    1994: Wow! A gigabyte! I'll never use all this space!
    1999: Uh, wow. Twenty gigabytes? I don't think I'll ever use all this space.
    2002: A hundred and twenty gigs? I... hm.
    2005: ... Ah, screw it.

  4. Re:Perhaps not a disk-replacement, but.... by $rtbl_this · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unless of course you loo[sic]se it.

    This reminds me of a revelation I had a few years ago, after getting my first CD-ROM drive. I'd manage to misplace a CD containing a multimedia encyclopedia and eventually found it sitting on the floor under my desk. I realised then that never before in human history had it been possible to lose an entire 28 volume encyclopedia by dropping it behind a piece of furniture. Now that's what I call progress!

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