Zooming in on Data Storage – Contents
- Introduction: Memory and Data-storage
- Chapter +13: Voyager 1 – the loneliest spacecraft
- Chapter +12: Galileo – by Jove
- Chapter +11: Curiosity – a Roadtrip on Mars
- Chapter +10: Kepler – an unblinking eye on the stars
- Chapter +9: Apollo – humanity’s greatest adventure
- Chapter +8: The Clarke orbit – geostationary satellites
- Chapter +7: Down to Earth and the Internet
- Chapter +6: California dreaming
- Chapter +5: San Francisco Bay Area – innovation engine
- Chapter +4: San Jose – birth of the storage industry
- Chapter +3: IBM’s Western Development Lab.
- Chapter +2: From the library at Alexandria to the modern data-center
- Chapter +1: Manufacturing equipment and hot & cold aisles
- Chapter +0: The venerable RAMAC and its modern counterpart
- Chapter -1: Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and Solid State Drives (SSD)
- Chapter -2: mechanical suspensions and silicon chips
- Chapter -3: Sliders: slicing and dicing and gliding on air
- Chapter -4: Nanotechnology – but what about the connections
- Chapter -5: Thin-film magnetics: writers and readers
- Chapter -6: Optical lithography: past present and future
- Chapter -7: New technologies for HDDs – lasers and microwaves
- Chapter -8: Bits and grains and gaps and extreme lithography
- Chapter -9: Seventy miles per hour with one nanometer clearance
- Chapter -10: Designing with atoms – Helium HDDs
- Conclusions: decades of space and time