IBM Photostore

10 responses to “IBM Photostore”

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   BenODen

   Jun 29, 2005 at 5:03 pm

   Oooh, cool. I wonder if any of them are still readable, and if any readers still exist. We’re about to go this way again with holographic storage, eh?

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   The Rocketeer

   Jun 29, 2005 at 5:06 pm

   Would have been a good Puzzler…

   I didn’t know anything had a terabit of data storage back in 1967. Got any images of the plastic cards? Wonder if they look like the isolinear chips on Star Trek, the original series…
   

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   BenODen

   Jun 29, 2005 at 5:12 pm

   http://www.nersc.gov/~deboni/Computer.history/Page4.dir/pages/ph... has some black and white pictures and good description from the perspective of Livermore Labs.

   Edit: But those are what I imagine holographic storage to look like, Rocketman. *grin* It’s been slow to develope, wonder if it’ll make it.

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   ranjit

   Jun 29, 2005 at 7:08 pm

   What a monster!

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   Sunburn

   Jun 29, 2005 at 7:08 pm

   The real question is how long it’ll take for this thing to end up in MAKE Magazine.

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   davidmccabe

   Jun 30, 2005 at 5:08 am

   How big is it?

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   sweet thing

   Jun 30, 2005 at 6:08 am

   @davidmccabe: This shows that it was roughly as tall as a human and twice as wide.

   

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   sweet thing

   Jun 30, 2005 at 6:09 am

   I did’nt know that there was anything with over a GB of storage before 1970 either.

   I wonder if the Government customers that recieved the only models, lowered the cone of silence on the design and prevented IBM from making them widley available.

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   angry shock

   Jul 1, 2005 at 7:29 am

   A robot stores boxes of cards on shelves.

   I guess I know how did it look like…

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    Sunburn

    Jul 1, 2005 at 7:39 am

    Too right, Alieness! First they keep the shoe-phone from us, and now the terabit robotic card-store!

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