Word: disks
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...switched on or off, representing the zeroes and ones of digitized data. In today's issue of Science magazine, IBM researchers report that they've managed to shrink those circuits down to the atomic level, a triumph of nanotechnology that could result in a hundredfold increase in disk drive capacity. Just when you were getting used to your 10-gigabyte hard disk, now we're talking one terabyte...
...Magical Disk...
...Second, how old is your PC? You'll want a speedy processor (at least 300 Mhz) plus at least 2 gigabytes of hard disk space and 128 megabytes of RAM. You can get by on less, but it won't be pretty. If you got the computer before last fall, check with the maker to see if there's a BIOS upgrade needed for W2K. And if you need one, pray that it's a simple software download, not a chip that needs to be replaced...
...were scripted, Case, sitting at Levin's left elbow, has been doing a little samba of his own. The Steve Case dance will be familiar to anyone who has been within two feet of a mailbox in the past decade, where Case's dance card came along with a disk inviting the recipient to join AOL. So far, 20 million have taken him up on the offer. Case, who was raised in Hawaii and is partial to batik shirts, seems to have ditched his old look wherever Levin left his Gulfstream. Besuited and betied, Case is also clearly bewitched...