At 4:02 PM -0800 2/18/98, Anonymous wrote:
Tim May wrote:
Or how about plastic cubes that can store terabytes....
They work fine. Just keep it in liquid nitrogen or you'll lose all your data.
Fine, I'll keep them in LN. Tell me where I can buy these terabyte cubes? This would be news to Rentzepis and his cohorts.
Backyard fabs? Quite doable with MBE or electron beam lithography. Just don't expect to do any mass-production on such a setup.
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