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TDK's 1TB Optical Disc Is Like 41 Blu-rays In One

Posted October 11, 2010 9:37 AM

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At Ceatec Japan, TDK highlighted a 1TB capacity optical disc—enough to hold a sizeable Blu-ray collection in the palm of your hand.

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10/11/2010 12:22 PM

Does anybody remember when the first gigabyte hard drives first came out? I do. They cost about a grand a piece and everybody was asking what anyone would ever need an entire GIG of hard drive space for? That was something like 20 years ago. Now, terabyte hard drives are not terribly expensive. Go figure.

So, TDK has come out with a terabyte optical disc. Still, 16 layers? Oh well, if it works, who am I to say?

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10/12/2010 4:41 AM

You youngsters, I was really pleased when I bought a 64k RAM pack for my ZX81...

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10/12/2010 8:39 AM

We're not all youngsters here.

I once bought a 10MB hard drive for my Apple ][. US$1300

Still have the Apple but the hard drive bit the dust after about a year.

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10/12/2010 10:22 AM

Oh yeah? Well I remember only having 2 5-1/4" floppies, and no hard drive!

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10/12/2010 11:44 AM

See you and raise you one...

I still have the cassette recorder that I originally saved and restored my Apple ][ programs on (and TWO 5-1/4" floppies).

Hooker <--- and don't even get me started on paper tape or punch cards

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10/12/2010 12:29 PM

And I'll trump the lot of you! I started programming on a pair of HPs that ran on tape cassettes and had no monitors, but rather output to paper tape. Top that.

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10/12/2010 1:17 PM

Does that beat a Flexwriter (teletype) that printed on thermal paper and simultaneously punched a paper tape? No storage and extremely primitive editing.

I used the above for NC programming (pre-CNC) in the '60's.

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10/12/2010 1:20 PM

I bow to the Senior. The gavel is yours sir. *Chuckle*

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10/12/2010 1:57 PM

Wait!! Wait!! Wait!!

I don't want it. No, really, I don't!!

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10/13/2010 4:22 AM

I guess we have to call you 'Hooker the old & wise' from now.

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10/13/2010 10:32 AM

Well, the old certainly fits.

I'm not too sure about the wise part...

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10/14/2010 11:42 AM

... why I remember when there were no electrons...

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