[Cobra64]

Map, they don't use cassette tapes in a Walkman anymore. It's a little more high tech now. Digital flight recorder data is stored on "digital" micro chips. If you doubt technology, compare today's computer to what you had 10 years ago. As a parallel example, IBM is coming out with a 400gb hard drive within the next two years. Research labs are talking about molecular memory. Bell Lab's 1953 transistor technology will look like a stone arrowhead compared to today's GPS & laser guided munitions. A $1,000 pc today has more processing power (MIPS thoughput) than the largest IBM mainframe 20 years ago. Twenty gb of DASD today would fill up a warehouse of tape drives today.

[Map Kernow]

Map, they don't use cassette tapes in a Walkman anymore. It's a little more high tech now. Digital flight recorder data is stored on "digital" micro chips. If you doubt technology, compare today's computer to what you had 10 years ago. As a parallel example, IBM is coming out with a 400gb hard drive within the next two years. Research labs are talking about molecular memory. Bell Lab's 1953 transistor technology will look like a stone arrowhead compared to today's GPS & laser guided munitions. A $1,000 pc today has more processing power (MIPS thoughput) than the largest IBM mainframe 20 years ago. Twenty gb of DASD today would fill up a warehouse of tape drives today.

Well, you didn't really answer my question, but you gave me a doggone good bit of what looks like good info. So thanks. :)