From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,71f3d03cb8013102 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10ed7b,71f3d03cb8013102 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed7b,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,71f3d03cb8013102 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 100e2d,71f3d03cb8013102 X-Google-Attributes: gid100e2d,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,71f3d03cb8013102 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: DPH Subject: Re: [offtopic] storage like you've always wished it could be: HUGE Date: 1999/12/01 Message-ID: <384525EA.78EF0B71@compuserve.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 555286960 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,talk.bizarre,misc.misc,comp.graphics.misc Date: 1999-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 'Tis awesome all right. But since the disk is totally transparant, where do you put the label? Kent Paul Dolan wrote: > Originally posted to an internal newsgroup: > > > Newsgroups: whistle.chat > > Subject: Re: whacky clear 160(sic) GB cd's in our futire? > > In-Reply-To: <38446A4C.C662035F@whistle.com> > > Paul, > > In email message <38446A4C.C662035F@whistle.com>, Paul Ozzello wrote: > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/991130-000011.html > > W. O. W. !!! > > Now that is MY kind of personal storage capability. > > Let's see; seven 140 GByte CD-ROMs makes about a terabyte, a typical > jukebox of 100 is 14 terabytes, pretty soon you're talking hosting > your own web open text search site in a ten or fifteen square foot > corner of a home office (which is about the cross section of the > optical fiber bundle you'd need coming though the wall to serve > all that data) ;-) as soon as they come out with the read-write > version. > > If you put them in racks instead of just dumping the jukeboxes under > the desk with the dust-bunnies, you could probably manage a pretty > decent on demand full length "full HDTV screen" feature classical > movie server in a spare bedroom. > > Thanks. I use to do research for the US DoC on high density, long > lived (centuries) storage systems, back in the mid 1970s when > nothing like that was available anywhere. I'm sure you just "made" > my last quarter century, and possibly my waning millennium. > > Thanks again, and thanks once more. > > The programmer not made more cheerful by that information has > no soul. > > ===== random archival quality quote ===== > > "No excuses. No embarrassment. No apologies... Ada -- the most > trusted and powerful programming language on earth, or in space." > -- S. Tucker Taft > -- > Kent Paul Dolan. >