[Coco] Totally OT: Terabit memory device

[jimcox at miba51.com]

Yep, a Tb is 125GB, but I believe the cube was a terabyte.

Jim

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:12:20 EDT
  KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>Say, isn't a terabit just 125 GBytes?  ISTR you can buy a 
>hard drive that 
>size for maybe $3-400.  Of course we all remember when 
>that many MB was a monster 
>HD.
>
>Maybe this sugar-cube-sized device had faster access and 
>readout times than 
>even the best HD, but when you throw in the scanning 
>lasers and photo pickups, 
>it was probably bigger than a breadbox :-)
>--Mike K.
>
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