[ On , May 22, 2001 at 07:27:17 (-0700), Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: SCSI disk and controllers
>
> According to my resident magnetics expert, folks have always known how
> to make magnetically hard layers.

three atoms thick?  Known theoretically, or practically?

> The missing piece has been making a
> head that can write on it.  (Current heads would saturate.)
> 
> If IBM also "discovered" how to make a head to go with this, I wonder
> why there isn't a press release about that.  That would be newsworthy.

That's a good point!

(They seem to imply that they can read/write at these densities....)

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