Magnetic information technology

DEC 01, 1984

Devices that can store tens of billions of characters of information in a few cubic feet, access blocks of that information in milliseconds and transfer it at the rate of tens of millions of characters per second are within our reach.

DOI: 10.1063/1.2915985

Mark H. Kryder

Alfred B. Bortz

Important advances in robotics, communications and information processing are awaiting the development of faster and more compact devices that store and handle information. Magnetic information technology could provide such devices in the near future, but to do so will require basic research on topics ranging from magnetic phenomena to unusual mechanical systems.

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Mark H. Kryder, Carnegie‐Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Alfred B. Bortz, Magnetics Technology Center.