RE: Why do computers still have disk drives?

Yeah, but that's not fair... Everyone knows that DNA came into being as
a result of chaos and selection. We gotta have something that is
designed... (TFPIC)... :-) 

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 10:43 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Why do computers still have disk drives?

Since we're all throwing new storage devices into the mix, they recently
did a proof-of-concept for using DNA for storing data.

Makes sense to me, it's already a quartenary-based storage system, where
each link in the storage chain already stores one of four different
configurations.

http://www.physorg.com/news2434.html

"____The DNA <http://www.physorg.com/search/DNA> molecule--nature's
premier data storage material--may hold the key for the information
technology industry as it faces demands for more compact data processing
and storage circuitry. A team led by Richard Kiehl, a professor of
electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota, has used DNA's
ability to assemble itself into predetermined patterns to construct a
synthetic DNA scaffolding with regular, closely spaced docking sites
that can direct the assembly of circuits for processing or storing
data.____"

DNA already is a data processing hardware medium, complete with the
chromosome supporting material that holds the DNA with the information,
the symbolic language, the RNA that carries the instructions to the
surrounding internal structures and sensing interfaces, and way much
more.


--Alan


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