From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:23:19 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: New technology around the corner [slashdot.org]
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>    Hitachi Makes Breakthrough Contributed by Justin
>    [Technology] Tue Feb 17 16:40:30 1998 EST
>    From the rapidly-advancing-society? dept.
>    Hitachi has made a breakthrough of their own, in a different kind of
>    storage. Hitachi announced they have found a way to reduce the number
>    of electrons needed to store a bit of information in a DRAM chip. The
>    128MB chips should be coming out soon, and will be perfected in the
>    16GB (*drool*) generation of chips.
>    Read More...
>    13 comment(s)

>    Seagate Makes Breakthrough Contributed by Justin
>    [Technology] Tue Feb 17 15:28:31 1998 EST
>    From the buncha-really-tiny-mirrors dept.
>    A division of Seagate Technology, Inc. has announced a new way of
>    increasing disk drive capacity density. Quinta has disclosed key parts
>    of their technology, which they call Optically Assisted Winchester
>    (OAW) technology to make a practical magento-optical disk that is
>    capable of holding 40GB/square inch. The new technology uses mirrors,
>    a new servo system, and other methods to allow these large capacities.

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>    [Technology] Sun Feb 15 11:12:15 1998 EST
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