From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad
Hello,
thank you, Don, for taking the trouble to actually do the googling! I was
present at the original presentation to the IASA Technical Committee in
Oxford 1987, and I was so happy to see it again at the Unlocking Audio
Conference in London in 2007, where I was giving a paper. It seems the client
base for the PLASMON/UDO system is so strong that it has been worthwhile for
another company to pick it up. And they now stress the huge savings in power
consumption compared to RAID systems.
Historically seen, there developed a very strong lobby centered on IASA and
furthered via IASA's links to UNESCO that promoted migration as the only
viable solution, and that effectively killed most other initiatives that
might have needed public funding for experiments.
Incidentally, my paper at Unlocking Audio was about long-term, in particular
mechanical storage media and it argued that the data density was not
unrealistic for such media and that the physical deformation of a surface
provided precisely the "fixing" that you asked for. PLASMON is designed for
digital information.
On Fri, 18 May 2007 I wrote a very long post to ARSCLIST about efficient
analog long-term storage, and I am not about to start another round of
discussion of pros and cons. Let present culture go down the drain due to
short-term digital interests, we can always provide new culture, appears to
be the agreed position.
Kind regards,
George
> On 12/10/2010, George Brock-Nannestad wrote:
> > From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad
> > Hello,
> >
> > Don Cox wrote:
> >>
> >> Even so, I think we need an archival digital disc which involves a
> >> physical change such as actual pits, rather than a dye. An archival
> >> storage system must be writable once only, and not erasable.
> >>
> >
> >
> > ----- but we DO have such a disc! It is a system that was introduced
> > in 1987 and which is still used by professionals ....... ..........................
> Took a bit of finding as the word Plasmon is widely used.
>
> It turns out Plamon Ltd went bust and Alliance Storage Technologies (ASTI)
> took over their technology.
>
> http://www.teclogserv.com/PDOEurope/en/press.html
>
> Regards
> --
> Don Cox
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