[zeugma]

BFL. The folks who keep calling for the death of the mainframe really just don’t understand their place in the computing ecosystem.

[Wuli]

I remember there were always IBM presentations where they'd be telling us how much more stored data they were getting on their latest disk drives, and into the presentation would come another IBMer who would announce they were plotting to put the inventors of better disk drives out of business with higher-capacity memory chips. And then the opposite would happen at some other presentation - someone had shrunk the size of a “disk” down and increased its capacity Xfold. It went back and forth all the time.

Lately I think “flash” memory is getting the bragging rights - for now.

Someday, maybe “nano” technology will be used to create a “massive capacity” “disk drive”, at the molecular level, requiring infinitesimally little power to change a "0" to a "1".