Time to celebrate!!!!

Today is known as the birthday of PCs....!!! Its been exactly 30 years since the first Atari 8800 microcomputer was advertised and sold. Its incredible to see how far the PC has come to what it is today.

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050104_122411.html

On a side note....another holographic storage device has appeared....along with the many other possible holographic storage solutions.....

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050104_142527.html

Personally, I'm not as excited about it as I used to be, considering that I'm kind of burned out. Does anyone remember Constellation 3D? and their innovative Flourescent Multilayer Disks? I thought that was really cool, and it was. Using technology back in 2001 with red lasers, they were about to store more than 1 TB (1,024 GB) on a single disk no larger than a plain CD. It was cool technology with unparallel random access speed. However, the truth was, it never took off because they went bankrupt..... Actually, they were back in 2000.....

http://www.sysopt.com/articles/c3d-spot/index2.html
http://www.storagesearch.com/constellation3d.html
http://www.hardwareaccelerated.com/content/interviews/constellation.php

So, I'm not too excited about this new stuff, even though it seems that the FMD is cheaper to produce and have higher read write speeds.....not to mention it was backward compatible with every existing format....

Once again, we see the turth about the ruthless business market place where good ideas get squashed while archaic ideas that have market penetration stays put. The best example......cars that run on gas.

- posted by Sai @ 11:04 AM