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Friday, August 31, 2007 12:00 AM

IBM squeezes computers to atomic scale

Ready to carry 30,000 movies on a device the size of an iPod?

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Friday, August 31, 2007 07:47 PM

I just got the first 1 Yottabyte drive!

I will never have to delete a file again.

Saturday, September 1, 2007 03:58 AM

This is new?

A friend went to Comdex (or somesuch) about 10 years ago and told me he saw something like this at the IBM booth. Laser mounted on an arm and pointed at a 1 inch cube of quartz. They told him he was looking at 3 terabytes of memory, using the spin of the atoms to represent 1's and 0's. Maybe this announcement means they are close to production.

Sunday, September 2, 2007 11:52 AM

I'm Way Ahead Of IBM

Years ago I created four molecular processors -- my kids.

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