[News] Linux Nation Brings Storage Innovation
Roy Schestowitz
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| A Kerala student claims to have invented an eco-friendly, paper-based
| storage system capable of compacting 90 to 450GB on a single disk, Arab
| News reports.
|
| [...]
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| In a demo at his college lab, Abideen demonstrated 432 pages of
| foolscap content compacted onto a four-inch-square piece of paper.
| The Arab News correspondent said he also saw a 45-second video clip
| read from ordinary paper.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/23/rvd_system/
Forget about the paperless office.
Gordon
>
> Forget about the paperless office.
I think it was forgotten some FIFTEEN years ago.....
You'll never get a paperless office with all the dorks in the Outlook
groups asking how to print emails automatically.....
Roy Schestowitz
Scam of Indian student developing technology to store 450 GB of data on a
sheet of paper
"This story was first reported by Arab News and later other media outlets
started quoting them.
This shows how technically illiterate the news reporters are.."
http://itsoup.blogspot.com/2006/11/scam-of-indian-student-developing.html
Jim Richardson
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it's amusing that some people actually bought that story. It was
obviously bullshit from the start.
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The Ghost In The Machine
<war...@eskimo.com>
wrote
on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:30:36 -0800
<c5hp34-...@dragon.myth>:
>
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:43:39 +0000,
> Roy Schestowitz <newsg...@schestowitz.com> wrote:
>> __/ [ Gordon ] on Friday 24 November 2006 17:14 \__
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Forget about the paperless office.
>>>
>>> I think it was forgotten some FIFTEEN years ago.....
>>> You'll never get a paperless office with all the dorks in the Outlook
>>> groups asking how to print emails automatically.....
>>
>>
>> Scam of Indian student developing technology to store 450 GB of data on a
>> sheet of paper
>>
>> "This story was first reported by Arab News and later other media outlets
>> started quoting them.
>> This shows how technically illiterate the news reporters are.."
>>
>> http://itsoup.blogspot.com/2006/11/scam-of-indian-student-developing.html
>
>
> it's amusing that some people actually bought that story. It was
> obviously bullshit from the start.
>
Maybe, but consider this:
5 1/4" disc surface area: 21.647 square inches
Paper surface area: 93.5 square inches
5 1/4" total surface area: 108.238 square inches
(assuming 3 platters, 5 surfaces, 1 servo surface)
Now, I've seen 500 gigabyte drives on the market.
Therefore, 450 GB on paper would be possible, if the paper
had the same mirror-shiny surface of a disk platter and the
same information density. The access would be far slower,
of course, and the head design would be quite different
(can't fly over at slow speeds!) unless someone actually
were to *spin* the paper (hmm, what was the name of that
painting toy?), which would probably be best done in a
more traditional drive format anyway.
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Roy Schestowitz
Here's a nice video that I watch the other day (somewhere along my 'Linux
route'):
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/11/peep-into-how-compact-discs-are.html
This addresses some of these material properties you were referring to. Hope
you enjoy it...
Best wishes,
Roy
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Larry Qualig
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ Gordon ] on Friday 24 November 2006 17:14 \__
>
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >>
> >> Forget about the paperless office.
> >
> > I think it was forgotten some FIFTEEN years ago.....
> > You'll never get a paperless office with all the dorks in the Outlook
> > groups asking how to print emails automatically.....
>
>
> Scam of Indian student developing technology to store 450 GB of data on a
> sheet of paper
>
> "This story was first reported by Arab News and later other media outlets
> started quoting them.
> This shows how technically illiterate the news reporters are.."
Since *YOU* fell for the story I suggest that this shows just how
technically illiterate you are.
>
> http://itsoup.blogspot.com/2006/11/scam-of-indian-student-developing.html
The Ghost In The Machine
<newsg...@schestowitz.com>
wrote
on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:45:31 +0000
<1524547.q...@schestowitz.com>:
Hm...interesting. This throws merry hob to most of
my ideas, since the creation of the master (basically,
a pitted metal disc formed from a photoresist-exposed
glass disc that is fitted into a die/injector) is carefully
described, and the compact discs are formed in the injector
using liquid that quickly hardens into polycarbonate
plastic. Perfect, to a point, duplicates.
It is far from clear whether they can be serialized afterwards.
Of course I should have suspected something along these lines anyway.
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