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06-12-2002, 08:49 PM

Brad Adrian Editor Emeritus Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 3,060		Re-Birth Of The Punchcard? 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

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