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Personally,

I like the IBM "millipede".  Talk about 21st century punch-cards....

http://www.zurich.ibm.com/st/storage/millipede.html

Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
  

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DeLong, Eric
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 3:20 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Why do computers still have disk drives?

IBM has been flirting with holographic memory systems for 
awhile, too...

http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/443/ashley.html

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-297-2863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Peter Dow (ML)
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:21 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Why do computers still have disk drives?


Several months ago I remember hearing that Samsung was working on a 
32GB  memory chip, and this article from 09/11/2006 seems to indicate 
they're getting closer: 
http://www.deviceforge.com/news/NS4990922808.html.

Also, it uses CTF (Charge Trap Flash) technology, so perhaps 
reliability 
and speed will be improved.

Tom Jedrzejewicz wrote:
On 10/6/06, Greg Wenzloff <GWenzloff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  
It's Friday -- often a quieter day in the office.

I was wondering why don't new computers like the i5 just have solid
state memory and forget about disk drives.   Think about 
it.   You can
get a 2GB thumb drive for $75 or less.    Why can't the 
manufacturers
just load about 200 GB of this solid state memory into the machine?
Think of the speed improvement.
    

  

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