A California company, Omex, is developing the first installation of its Slide-Store system which utilizes glass slides/plates as the digital data storage.
Conceptually related to the use of optical disks for digital storage, the Omex technology uses five inch square glass slides as the storage medium. The slides are of a sandwich construction and data is recorded using the direct read after write (DRAW) technique and a gas laser. Each slide is capable of storing 397 megabytes of data.
The company says that the slide/ plate approach is superior to the use of optical digital disks for digital data storage because it eliminates the problems inherent in rotating a disk, both during recording and retrieval. [Contact: Omex, 2323 Owen Street, Santa Clara, CA 95051; (408) 727- 5801.]
