What Happened To The Small Form Terrabyte HDs?

Bahumat asks: "I remember hearing about a year back about credit-card size solid-state hard drives that were to revolutionize the storage industry, with the capacity for 2300 gigabytes stored, and the cost of manufacture to be less than $50. The old news release [ C : dated 8/99] is posted here. Does anybody know of any updates or press releases about this technology?"

Maybe

[SpiceWare]

They decided to not tempt Microsoft with the challenge of releasing Windows ME ver 2.0 on 5 DVDs, all of which are required :-)

Correct second patent

[Chris Pimlott]

Oops. Linked the second patent [ibm.com] incorrectly.

Given the first one is dated around the time of the inital annoucement and the second applied for 3/7/00, that would seem to be the one referred to in the update (and give it some dating).

Re:Maybe

[Andrew Vieyra]

Heh I recieved some WinME cd's with developer code and they were 4 cd's packed to 800meg each

Meager news & contact info.

[Chris Pimlott]

There's a small update [cmruk.com] from their venture capital firm:

Keele High Density Computer Memory: we have now started licensing negotiations with some of the world's largest computer companies - so far it all looks promising, but we have many important barriers to get over - at any one of these the project could fall-apart - but so-far-so-good! Additional patents are being filed now which moves the maximum capacity at credit card size to 10.8 TB

No date by this blurb but the overall page was last updated 4/7/00, and the blurb above it references July 13... so probably posted sometime early this year.

IBM's patent database [ibm.com] shows they have filed for an obtained 2 [ibm.com] patents [ibm.com] in Great Britain but the only data online is they are both for "High Density Storage Systems" ($3 each for copies)

There's also contact info. [cmruk.com] so you could try to get some news straight from the source.