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Sony Innovating In Tape Technology… Seriously (185 Tera Bytes )
legitreviews.com ^ | Fri, May 09, 2014 - 6:53 AM | Benjamin Young

Posted on 05/09/2014 10:07:31 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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1 posted on 05/09/2014 10:07:31 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
WANT! ;-D

2 posted on 05/09/2014 10:09:50 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? :-)
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To: ShadowAce; BenLurkin; SunkenCiv; NormsRevenge; Marine_Uncle; Fred Nerks

Get you cameras working.


3 posted on 05/09/2014 10:10:25 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: skinkinthegrass

But won’t it take like several hours to fast forward or rewind to the section you want?


4 posted on 05/09/2014 10:33:48 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sony has always been good in this technology. They were able to leverage many of the things learned to make Blu-Ray and win the HD-DVD war.

Hopefully, it will mean the handful of shares I kept when I left the company in 2008 will be worth what it was when I left.

Believe it or not, there is still a fair market for cassette tapes in some third world markets and Sony still makes those tapes, too.

5 posted on 05/09/2014 10:38:16 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I’d hate to have to wait for that tape to backup my system.I’ll die of old age before it’s done.


6 posted on 05/09/2014 10:40:48 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Recording density of 148 Gb/in2. Holy smokes. That is very impressive indeed.


7 posted on 05/09/2014 10:42:37 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Galt level is not far away......)
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To: qam1; All
several hours to fast forward or rewind
ummm, OK..so i'll wait a couple months....
for "searching" improvements..

8 posted on 05/09/2014 10:42:59 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? :-)
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To: Marine_Uncle

That’s a lot of pr0n.


9 posted on 05/09/2014 10:44:17 AM PDT by dfwgator
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RE: "That's a lot of pr0n.
What does "pr0n" stand for?
10 posted on 05/09/2014 10:47:48 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Galt level is not far away......)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

And the NSA rejoices.


11 posted on 05/09/2014 10:52:20 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: puppypusher

This tape would back up several TB of data in seconds.


12 posted on 05/09/2014 10:54:14 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: Marine_Uncle

Now we need that on a rotating surface


13 posted on 05/09/2014 10:56:20 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
RE: "Now we need that on a rotating surface."
That was one of my initial thoughts as well Ernest.
14 posted on 05/09/2014 10:58:36 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Galt level is not far away......)
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To: skinkinthegrass
and:

New cassette tape could hold 47 million songs

15 posted on 05/09/2014 11:04:43 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: TexasGunLover

If that tape machine is able to recover that fast that would be a great piece of backup gear.I have had tapes in the past that we’re slowww.

I would prefer the disk method.They seem to be much faster.


16 posted on 05/09/2014 11:12:43 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

If you could apply this technology to DVDs, that would be about 1.5 Tb per DVD single side. Far better than the 15 Gig for a single side HD-DVD.


17 posted on 05/09/2014 11:14:39 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Marine_Uncle

Trying to find a picture of the IBM Datacell....it was incredible n its day....


18 posted on 05/09/2014 11:14:50 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: All
The History of Computer Storage Innovation from 1928 to Today (2013)
19 posted on 05/09/2014 11:19:41 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: taxcontrol

This is a magnetic technology ..tape, floppy disk, hard disk drives

cd, dvd, blueray is optical tecnology


20 posted on 05/09/2014 11:26:53 AM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more.)
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