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Paper-based storage device
Are the days for CDs, DVDs, Zip drives over? A computer whizkid is revolutionizing the computer data storage through his Rainbow Technology, reports M A Siraj.
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A student has developed a technique for portable data whereby the data can now be stored on ordinary paper. And to boot, larger amount of data can be had on lesser space. The immediate question that pops up in the mind is how to retrieve the data. Will it be as facile as feeding a floppy disc or CD into the drive and having it on the monitor? Perhaps it will be much easier than all that. The piece of paper or even plastic sheet storing the data has just to be scanned in the scanner and read over the monitor.
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Nah, I don’t think so. I remember a similar development a while ago. It stored data in a printable format and would scan it back to life. If never panned out. I spent a LOT of time playing with it. I could see tremendous benefit in it. But, never got it to work. And scanners were no where as popular as today.
We’ll see. But it definitely not a revolutionary discovery imho.
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