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British boffins ditch spinning media for ultra-fast storage tech

Could this be the storage tech that replaces hard disks and supersedes solid-state drives? UK-based developer DataSlide believes so, claiming to have the others licked with magnetic but non-rotating system it's calling Hard Rectangular Drive. DataSlide's technology centres on a sheet of magnetic material mounted beneath a …

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Paul Crawford

Core not dumped

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Ah - a high-tech version of the old core memory, lots of magnetic storage with electronic indexing...

David Paul Morgan

reminded me of...

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... a wide matrix/impact printer we had, where the matrix would move left/right as well as the paper, to produce the image.

I like this idea!

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