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=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11232c,71f3d03cb8013102,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 10ed7b,71f3d03cb8013102,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed7b,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,71f3d03cb8013102,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,71f3d03cb8013102,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 100e2d,71f3d03cb8013102,start X-Google-Attributes: gid100e2d,public From: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) Subject: [offtopic] storage like you've always wished it could be: HUGE Date: 1999/12/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 555153489 X-Complaints-To: news@wenet.net X-Trace: news.wenet.net 944023416 208.178.101.2 (Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:43:36 PST) Organization: Birthright Party "The birthright of humankind is the stars!" Reply-To: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:43:36 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,talk.bizarre,misc.misc,comp.graphics.misc Date: 1999-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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.