OFF: Online backups (was: Re: HW: Alien Autopsy)

[Jerry G]

  I thought I came across something about IBM doing some research in 
that area
a while back. How's that Bevis Frond album sound? I really need to grab some
more of their CD's.


Jonathan Jarrett wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jerry G wrote:
>
>>  You had an Altair? I had to type all mine in on an IBM 029. I'd love 
>> to go with
>> LTO-4 if the prices weren't so high. I wish their average life 
>> expectancy was a
>> little higher as well. It'd be nice if there was an affordable 
>> holographic storage
>> that would hold a few petabytes, have unlimited writes, and lasted a 
>> few centuries.
>
>     By a strange coincidence, someone else pointed me at this: it's a 
> long way off what you're asking for, except in the last specification, 
> but the problem is being worked on:
>
> http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=8473
>
> Yours,
>     Jon
>
> ObCD: The Bevis Frond - _What Did for the Dinosaurs_