Dear NSA, I Don’t Think You Meant Yottabytes(xato.net)
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Dear NSA, I Don’t Think You Meant Yottabytes
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A little known fact...
YEARS ago, the electronics company "Phillips" who invented the CD made a prototype of a new format that used "wave division multiplexing".
In short a full-spectrum laser (not red or blue or green) with 16.8 million colours was used, that could read data from a disc, using multi layers read via every "colour".
So in essence it would turn a 9GB disc into a 9 x 16.8 million GB disc.
Or 15200000 GB disc.
The Technology was shown working to trade insiders (myself being one of them) and then....
It just disappeared, never to be heard of again..
Some colleagues speculated that Government or Military wanted the tech and approached Phillips.
Not for the consumer market.
This was back in 1995.
A little known fact...
YEARS ago, the electronics company "Phillips" who invented the CD made a prototype of a new format that used "wave division multiplexing".
In short a full-spectrum laser (not red or blue or green) with 16.8 million colours was used, that could read data from a disc, using multi layers read via every "colour".
So in essence it would turn a 9GB disc into a 9 x 16.8 million GB disc.
Or 15200000 GB disc.
The Technology was shown working to trade insiders (myself being one of them) and then....
It just disappeared, never to be heard of again..
Some colleagues speculated that Government or Military wanted the tech and approached Phillips.
Not for the consumer market.
This was back in 1995.
So having seen a billionfold increase in what I can affordably hang off my personal computer, I'm not willing to rule out another one over the same timeframe.