Message no. 1

From:	"Chad S. Mawson" <csm2747@************.EDU>
Subject:	Optical
Date:	Sat, 10 Apr 93 15:06:43 CDT

> Hmm, I could be mistaken, but I thought I read in one of the SR
> sourcebooks that computers in SR were based on the optical chip.

They are.

> One of the other benefits of optical technology being explored is that you
> could run a computer with more than two states (on or off). By varrying
> the colour of the light pulse, you could achieve many state, thus being
> able to store much more information into the same area.
>
> Unfortuantely, I think many of the computer geeks in the worls (myself
> included) will have a difficult time being able to deal with bits capable
> of having more that two states :)

More than 0 or 1...Gives me the willy's just thinkin' about it. Even if it
could be done, it would just take more control bits to manage the info.
Somewhere, one of the Sourcebooks maybe (?), I thought I remembered reading
that the chips in SR use green and red, to store the optical images on chips.
Therefore being like modern Electro-Magnetic but putting that data in a smaller
amount of space. If a 3.5 inch Electro-Magetic Floppy can hold 1.44 Mbytes
(2.88 if your IBM) and a CDROM being Optical can hold 600 Mbytes...Big
difference in capacity, but not in size.


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