Scotch Tape Storage: How to make a 10 gigabyte harddrive out of a roll of Scotch Tapegreenspun.com : LUSENET : TB2K spinoff uncensored : One Thread |
This one is from the "Weird but True" files...Scientists from the European Media Laboratory in Heidelberg, working together with the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Mannheim, have demonstrated that 10 gigabytes of data can be stored on a roll of conventional adhesive tape of the brand tesa Multi-Film, kristallklar.
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Link: 10 GIGABYTE STORAGE CAPACITY ON A ROLL OF COMMERCIAL ADHESIVE TAPE
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-- Jim Morris (prism@bevcomm.net), March 19, 2000
Yeah, but it is erasable?
-- A (A@AisA.com), March 20, 2000.
why would someone WANT to do this?
-- cin (cinlooo@aol.com), March 21, 2000.
cin.. just because they can? :-)
-- Netghost (ng@no.yr), March 21, 2000.
Exactly! ;-)
-- Jim Morris (prism@bevcomm.net), March 21, 2000.