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Optware to Release 30 GB Holographic Card for Less than $1 at the End of 2006

"Optware Corp., a developer of holographic data storage systems, is planning to release a Holographic Versatile Card (HVC) media product around the end of 2006. The card capacity is expected to be 30 GB. The company aims to price the product around ?100. Optware also intends to set the price of a reader device lower than ?200,000 and a reader/writer device lower than ?1 million. The launch of these HVC-related products is planned to coincide with the standardization of the technology, expected in December, 2006, by Ecma International, an organization promoting standardization of information and communication technologies. The company also revealed photos of mockups. Dimensions of the card are almost the same as those of a credit card, while the drive system is designed to be the size of a surface-mounted hard disc drive system. "

Wow, this could mean the end of the Floppy Disk. (oh, Floppies are already dead, sorry) Imagine carrying around 30GB and plugging in from one PC to another. OK, I am off to get an engineering degree to be the 1st to create an Mini SD, SD and CF adapter for this thing.

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