Bigger and better.
Predicts that disk drives will become at least ten times, and quite possibly 100 times, more capacious over the next decade or two with the average desktop computer-holding information equivalent to a good-sized library. Possibilities of 800 megabytes to 8 gigabytes of storage; Problems with packin...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 321; no. 7732; pp. 100 - 102 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
11/9/1991
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| Sumario: | Predicts that disk drives will become at least ten times, and quite possibly 100 times, more capacious over the next decade or two with the average desktop computer-holding information equivalent to a good-sized library. Possibilities of 800 megabytes to 8 gigabytes of storage; Problems with packing information more tightly, and reading and writing it with greater precision and speed; The use of `thin-film' technology; Details. |
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