90-Gigabyte Solid-State "Hard Drive?"

CrtxReavr writes "American Computer Company: "Described as a "Poker Chip Sized" solid state disk drive, the new semiconductor could be seen in service by the end of 1999 or early in the year 2000. The device can store over 90 billion characters of information..." This sounds like it's too good to be true and the article excludes a lot of important information that would be necessary for verification purposes, for what they claim is security reasons. It prolly is worth scrutinizing though. "

Want some scrutiny? Conor Walsh sent us a good list of problems:

1. They can't spell 'terahertz' properly.
2. They did a really bad job with paintbrush. I have personally done better jobs. (I have a picture of Bill Clinton getting off AF-1 with an earring... I laughed my ass off when a worse one appeared in a tabloid two weeks after I made it.)
3. If it operates with almost no heat/power dissipation at 12 THz, why not raise it to 20 or so?
4. Wait... a hard drive doesn't have a frequency!
5. '...semiconducting microswitches...replacing transistors...', except that's what transistors are!
6. 'Low Power TCAPS Technology drains only 1 ma/hr during operation.' Thoroughly impossible... the ampere is not something that can be measured over time... it's an instantaneous thing. It could draw a current of one mA for an hour of operation, but it would also draw the same for a minute or a year. The term for electricity over time, in this case, would be the Couloumb. (Amps*seconds)

Technology a la Firmage

To say that the article excludes a lot of technological information is an understatement. The article claims that they don't know where the technology came from! Either their command of the English language is absolutely terrible, or this is a perfect candidate for Joe Firmage's new company to fund.

The web site looks like more of an April Fools' joke...they slapped their logo on a Pentium II cartridge with some paint program, took a stock photo of a silicon wafer and somehow came up with this "unknown" technology that they aren't going to sell to the monopolizing computer companies.

Does anyone REALLY believe this? Remember, just because it's on the web doesn't mean that it's true!

=h=

Roswell

Oh yes, they are very credible, they also claim that aliens helped them invent the transistor. [accpc.com]

sure I believe them.

Oh dear, aren't these our 'alien tech' friends?

Before reading the article (and even halfway down it), I was almost gulled into thinking 'cool'
except that the claims were a bit too good to be true.
As soon as the article stated mumbling about terahertz speeds (now isn't any electromagnetic wave at frequency somewhere in the
far infrared range?) and the origins of the complex designs for this technology being totally
unknown(roswell! roswell!)- I remembered seeing these guys (American Computers) put up similarly preposterous claims previously.

What I can't work out is:
a) does American Computer want to be taken seriously on this?
b) is it some sort of (very silly) con or scam.
c) some sort of method of getting extra site hits from gullible people (hey I visited the site...).
d) Some sort of gag/humor site/parody. It did kind of make me smile. If it's a gag, they've certainly made it very deadpan.
e) do these people really have this product (tinfoil hat time methinks)

All I know about this site is that it's been around for a while and that they've made similar claims before. I just forgot about them.

At least the blurb warned us that the information might be rather unreliable....