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"In science fiction one can say a great many things that are unpalatable, … because it's expressed as science fiction you can slip it past their defenses."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Dime Disk | ||
| A very small data storage medium. |
I just liked the phrase; maybe I'm a sucker for alliteration. When this book was written, storage discs the size of a dime were still a dream.
| "What have you got for us?" I showed them my dime disk. "Took me less than a week...We may have lost some of the military vocations over the centuries. We'll have to reinvent them. This is just a first cut." Anton set a dime disk next to mine, and a small projector. "Mine's nearly full..." We watched stills and flat motion pictures of weapons and tools in action. |
| Technovelgy from The Best of all Possible Wars,
by Larry Niven. Published by Baen Books in 1998 Additional resources -
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Now, of course, you can get compact flash hard disks; I think the actual size of the disk is between a dime and a quarter. IBM makes compact flash drives that hold up to one gigabyte.
Toshiba makes a "nickel-sized" hard drive - read the Science Fiction in the News Story Toshiba
0.85 Inch Diameter Hard Drive for more info.
From the short story "Madness Has Its Place" by Larry Niven.
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