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After a deal with Recortec (makers of the TRS-80 clone, called variously "Video Genie" or "PMC-80") fell through in August 1980, Exidy Systems was sold to a Wall Street venture capital firm, Biotech, in summer 1981, which sold it on to Dynasty Computer Corp., Texas, in February, 1982. Dynasty made minor updates and re-branded it as the "Dynasty ...
5D optical data storage (also branded as Superman memory crystal, [1] a reference to the Kryptonian memory crystals from the Superman franchise) is an experimental nanostructured glass for permanently recording digital data using a femtosecond laser writing process. [2]
A functional block diagram, in systems engineering and software engineering, is a block diagram that describes the functions and interrelationships of a system. The functional block diagram can picture: [1] functions of a system pictured by blocks; input and output elements of a block pictured with lines; the relationships between the functions ...
An early version of the system was shown at the 2016 Bay Area Maker Faire. [8] A Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise money for the console began on September 28, 2021. [9] [10] The company projected a production of at least 10,000 Thumby consoles despite the 2020–present global chip shortage. [3]
Historically, most SSDs used buses such as SATA, SAS, or Fibre Channel for interfacing with the rest of a computer system. Since SSDs became available in mass markets, SATA has become the most typical way for connecting SSDs in personal computers; however, SATA was designed primarily for interfacing with mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs), and it became increasingly inadequate for SSDs, which ...
Superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) systems store energy in the magnetic field created by the flow of direct current in a superconducting coil that has been cryogenically cooled to a temperature below its superconducting critical temperature. This use of superconducting coils to store magnetic energy was invented by M. Ferrier in 1970.
Hierarchical storage management (HSM), also known as tiered storage, [1] is a data storage and data management technique that automatically moves data between high-cost and low-cost storage media. HSM systems exist because high-speed storage devices, such as solid-state drive arrays, are more expensive (per byte stored) than slower devices ...
At first, an array of Williams tubes—a storage system based on cathode-ray tubes—was used, but proved temperamental and unreliable. Several researchers in the late 1940s conceived the idea of using magnetic cores for computer memory, but MIT computer engineer Jay Forrester received the principal patent for his invention of the coincident ...