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Sunday, March 10, 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/294992p-2583431c.html DataPlay - the next great storage format? JON HEALEY, Los Angeles Times BOULDER, Colorado (March 9, 2002 11:32 p.m. EST) - Digital technology is built on an elegantly simple foundation, a universal language of ones and zeros. Yet when it comes to storing those ones and zeros, the electronics world is a mess of incompatible memory cards, sticks and disks. DataPlay Inc., a start-up bred in a Rocky Mountain hotbed for data-storage engineers, hopes to lead consumers out of the chaos with a new, universal format. A wafer-thin disk encased in a 1 1/4-inch square of plastic, each piece of DataPlay media can hold at least five hours of CD-quality music, one hour of video, one console-style video game, 1,000 high-resolution digital photos or 100 e-books....
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