Re: Why do computers still have disk drives?

Would the memory then be prone to develop Alzheimers ?
  :-)

--- Alan <cfuture@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

Neil Palmer, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

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