[ale] OT - Portable Drive

[jknapka at kneuro.net (JK)]

Ned Williams wrote:

> The WEIRD thing about this thread is that I am currently working on a 
> job site in Detroit and I walked past a cube this morning with the PAN 
> Am pic of the HDD enclosure on the fork lift stuck up on the cube 
> wall...weird I tell ya.
>  
> ON a slightly humourous and potentially unintentional flame bait 
> note...The IBM history page on the 305 notes it was created to eliminate 
> punch card drums...so perhaps with all the hooplah over the current 
> electronic voting systems and verifiably paper trails..we should just 
> tear em out and haul in a few 305's..that way we can actually WATCH the 
> individual votes being written to the disc platters.

Personally, I think the right answer is to stay with paper. These
days, we should be able to achieve multiple gigabytes per square inch,
using nanopaper technology.

-- JK

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