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It sounds nice. But I have been fooled before. During my training I found a paper on IBM joining some company to create a "HD-ROM", using gallium ions instead
by krylon 11y ago
It sounds nice. But I have been fooled before. During my training I found a paper on IBM joining some company to create a "HD-ROM", using gallium ions instead of a Laser, which supposedly would have stored some 150 GB on a medium the size of a CD or DVD, and that mediumd could been literally anything, rock, iron, a diamond, whatever, ... but apparently, it never came to pass.
- burkaman 11y agoI think it did sort of come to pass. http://www.norsam.com/rosetta.html http://www.norsam.com/rosetta.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-Rosetta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-Rosetta http://rosettaproject.org/disk/technology/ http://rosettaproject.org/disk/technology/ But it just wasn't very popular? Hard to tell.
- wpietri 11y agoHi! Occasional Long Now volunteer here. I've seen the prototype disks, but my hazy recollection is that production cost kept this from being a practical technology for many uses, which of course keeps the production cost high. It turns out most people don't really care about archival quality. E.g., almost all my data is on media that I replace a couple times a decade.