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From: Cheryl Singhal <>
Subject: Recording Media News
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 14:58:12 -0400


Paul, and others, I am unable to refrain from making some connections
here ...

BN>From: Paul Petersen <>

BN>World Record in Magnetic
BN>Recording Claimed By IBM

BN>SAN JOSE, Calif., - (BNS) The hotly contested recording wars saw
BN>another salvo fired as IBM's Advanced Magnetic Recording Laboratory
BN>claimed a new world record in magnetic data-storage density - 3
GBytes
BN>of data per square inch.

"Matter expands to fill the space available." Somebody's 3rd Law ...

BN> The achievement will allow floppy disk drives and hard disk
drives
BN>to obtain substantially higher capacities than are presently in use.
BN>To illustrate a single 3.5" floppy disk could hold the full text of
BN>900 volumes from a library shelf, or about 30,000 photographs.

1 3.5 = 30,000 GIF/jpegs/whatever

IGI = 187 MILLION names. 187M / 30T = ????

Also, 30,000 GIFetc = 900 hardcopy books.

A picture is worth CONsiderably more than a thousand words, here.

BN> But for mainframe owners the news is really exciting. These
BN>"big-iron" machines typically have as many as 100 hard disk drives
BN>connected. If IBM can successfully bring it's technology to market
BN>mainframe owners could obtain hundreds of terrabyte storage
capacities
BN>within a few years, just in time for the massive storage
requirements
BN>demanded by the information superhighway.

Now that I can applaud heartily. However, see comment 1: matter
expands...

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