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PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 2:43 am 
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I have two things in the works along with my history wiki: that I just can’t get working.

In data storage collections there are 5 holy grails. I’ve just added another making 3.
The standard glass master
The pressing glass master
The .75” floppy

Leaving the 22” hard disk platter
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The SNK PC2000 disc.

On the games side I just worked out a purchase/trade to get my hands on a holo-drone unit that includes analogue tennis.
Leaving only the Sega Universe missing from my collection.
If that exists in reality at all.

So here’s my polls:

A) anyone interested in an in-depth series on non-standard storage? From morse recording to WW2 laser messaging to HAMR and beyond?

B) wires, switches, circuits: how junk makes kool games.

B would be a truncated release of a book I’m working on.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 8:48 pm 

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I vote A

But honestly either would be interesting.

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I would have to say “A” as well.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:17 am 
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A wins by vote across sites.

And I got a few emails directly asking about laser floppies.

So: floptical (optical floppy, laser guided), HAMR (heat assisted magnetic recording, laser heated), and LAMER (laser assisted magnetic erosion recording)

Floptical is laser guided floppy disks that use tiny tiny “cells”. They can reach over a GB of storage.

Hammer uses heat to expand the writing point, which cools and is read by a separate read head or a second head unit
40TB disks can be found today but the idea of exobytes isn’t fantasy.

LAMER is a WORM tech, write once read many.
A laser literally burns off the coating of iron carbon cobalt from the disk.
Test release units start at 20TB up to 100TB. The capacity is literally unlimited. The size, angle and power of the laser determines sector size and the smaller the frequency reflection the more data you can store. Test units are 2-18nm.
Likely the next gen of non-portable removable storage. It’s direct competition is single write LTO tape.

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