Data Storage Device Can Survive Evolving Technology
Sep-29-12
Hitachi has developed a glass data storage device that can easily be read with a common microscope, allowing it to be accessed regardless of future technologies.The storage device, a square sliver of quartz glass, is printed with a binary series of dots. Designed to prevent the possibility of losing information as technology evolves, the binary code can be read by an optical microscope and any computer capable of understanding binary code. The storage device is also nearly indestructible, able to withstand fire, water and most chemicals.
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Wow. Technology comes full circle. Decades ago, experiments were successfully performed to store text in glass plates at extreme photographic reduction. This is essentially the same idea, except that these plates will have much higher storage density because they are machine-readable and hold digital information, which has a much lower degree of redundancy than text. I wonder if any of the people at Corning who did the early work are still alive.
Posted by Marc de Piolenc on October 4, 2012
so good ma
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Wow. Technology comes full circle. Decades ago, experiments were successfully performed to store text in glass plates at extreme photographic reduction. This is essentially the same idea, except that these plates will have much higher storage density because they are machine-readable and hold digital information, which has a much lower degree of redundancy than text. I wonder if any of the people at Corning who did the early work are still alive.
Posted by Marc de Piolenc on October 4, 2012
so good ma
Posted by aadwf ww on May 14, 2014
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