From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Sep 24 1999 - 11:39:13 MDT
Okay, I just read a news article (paper, unfortunately - London Times)
that alleges one Ted Williams of Keele University in the UK, inventor of
NMR, claims the following:
1. Storing 2,300 gigabytes in a credit card;
2. Manufacturing it for 35 pounds;
3. Scaling it up or down ("even a wristwatch could store 100GB");
4. No moving parts;
5. A company has been formed;
6. Might start selling it in summer of 2001.
Didn't say anything about access speed, but I got the impression it
might be intended to replace RAM as well as hard drives.
So is this real?
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