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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. I guess THAT'S why?!?! by anonymousman77 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I suppose that's why they sold their harddrive interests to Hitachi! Who needs those old mechanical monsters when you've got this!?!?!?!

  2. Measurements.... by southpolesammy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Of course, being the loyal /.'ers that we are, I have to ask the question...

    What is the storage density of this new technology in Libraries of Congress/hectare? :-P

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