Fascinating Storage

[John Mayberry]

Storing audio in DNA….  

 

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324539304578259883507543150.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories

 

[Toby Carter]

You could create some dangerous bionic person with that sort of technology, interesting...

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On 24 Jan 2013, at 14:59, "John Mayberry" <emm...@emmaco.com> wrote:

Storing audio in DNA….  

 

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324539304578259883507543150.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories

 

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[John P. Overington]

This was done where I work - the guys are definately digital in mindset. Their eyes glaze over when I talk about hifi and my '70s speakers.

It is very interesting stuff though - key in their approach was the encoding of error robustness - in the world of DNA 'writing' is slow and expensive, 'reading' is quick and cheap.

John

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On 24 Jan 2013, at 15:59, "John Mayberry" <emm...@emmaco.com> wrote:

Storing audio in DNA….  

 

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324539304578259883507543150.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories

 

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[Lothar]

One small cup of DNA can store 100 million hours of high definition video....not bad, is it?

Remember the times of the Sinclair ZX-81 with 1 kb (!!!) RAM and you could beef that up to SIXTEEN kb !!!!!

BUT what they manged to do with just 16 kb was just amazing !!!!!!!

Those were the days 345 years ago......I mean in 1981-82 .......

Fascinates me a lot, even today......got quite a few of these oldies....

Lothar

[John Mayberry]

Tell us more!

[Lothar]

Easy!

Always been a HUGE Sinclair fan, and surprise, surprise, all his computers are black and flat!  Reminds me of....   ???

So in the eighties I bought the little ZX-81 computer, saw the flashing cursor on my TV, and had NO idea what to do next.....

Later I collected almost everything from Sinclair, watches, ALL computers (world famous first gaming computer ZX-Spectrum with thousands of games on tape cassette!), first laptop or tablet, the Z88.....

Sinclair Sovereign calculators, absolutely beautiful, very expensive now, and ALL in many Design Museums !

Was even lucky and got some of my stuff from Sir Clive Sinclair himself!  I pestered him so much, till he gave up, sent me a personal letter, together with some bits and pieces from his own museum.....  :)))

Well, LONG story!

Lothar

P.S. A bit later some Commodore and Atari and Texas Instruments followed.....

[MLO]

Memories indeed.  In 1975 I had a Sinclair Project 80 Audio (I hesitate to call it a Hifi) system.  Project 80 was bought as a bunch of modules that were Black -of course - flat and had slider controls.  Being very compact I built them into the base of a connoisseur BD101 turntable kit into some homemade speakers - and that was my student hifi system for about 2 years.  Mind you it got VERY noisy with the crackle on the sliders.

[Lothar]

Funny you mention that!  Bought that system, too, about a year ago! Like new, original boxes, BUT so far I have been too lazy to put it all together!
BUT: Nice to have it!
After all it was cheap in those days it was first sold, and quality was not bad at all compared with the very low price!

Lothar