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  Gormley said Brown's body showed "plenty of external stuff that=20
suggests, odds are, that injury in
  the skull could ultimately be fatal, but probably wasn't fatal for=20
him, in that case, because other
  things killed him first."
  He added there were likely other internal injuries that could not be=20
seen and that the circular head
  wound "probably knocked him out or stunned him" making Brown=20
"unconscious and not alert so that
  would immediately incapacitate him, I would imagine."
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TRANSCAP SPEC'S
American Computer Company=20
electronic components division=20
Transfer Capacitor Storage Device 090b8=20
       Special to THE HIGH TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
       written by Brandon DeWitt, IIId=20
       American Computer Company announced that it has, after five=20
months effort, successfully
       assembled a transcapacitor based storage "disk drive" with the=20
assistance of "Tata Industrial
       Semiconductors", a Taiwan based silicon foundry.=A0 Picture and=20
specifications of the new device
       are detailed below (CLICK HERE FOR SPEC SHEET).=A0 Described as a=20
"Poker Chip Sized" solid
       state disk drive, the new semiconductor could be seen in=20
service by the end of 1999 or early in
       the year 2000.=A0 The device can store over 90 billion characters=20
of information, the capacity of=A0
       15 Digital Video Disks, or 112 ordinary CD-ROMs, or printed=20
material which could fill 90
       ten-story buildings.=A0 Its power consumption is described as=20
"negligible", and the speed of access
       is said to be "limited by the computer it is connected to,=20
reading a full 1 million bytes of
       information could take as little as 10 nanoseconds".=A0 The=20
development team, underneath Phillip
       Huang, has visualized PC's with "no RAM memory needed" in a=20
future implementation which
       might mate one or more of the INTEL Pentium II Processor(s)=20
with the "90b8" device, along with
       an "embedded Windows NT operating system". Estimated price for=20
the "Hard Drive" version of
       the 090b8: $895.
                                   Fig 1: 90-Gigabyte Solid-State=20
"Hard Drive"
                                    Based on the new ACC Transfer=20
Capacitor
                                    in an INTEL Slot-1 Cartridge Chip=20
Carrier
                              [The Slot 1 Cartridge Chip Carrier=20
housing the prototype,
                               is a licensed, patented product of=20
INTEL Corporation]=A0=20
       When reached for comment, a spokesperson stated: "The best part=20
of this design is, it has NO
       MOVING PARTS TO WEAR OUT, and is 1000 times faster than even=20
the FASTEST Mainframe
       Hard Drives ever made by IBM. It can store upto about 20 or=20
more Hours of Continuous high
       definition Television Video on a single Cartridge, making it=20
ideal for future "set top boxes" used
       in future film rental systems, that can store 6 to 10 complete=20
first run films for viewing, retrieved
       by Cable TV modem on a Pay Per Retrieval - Multiple View basis.=20
It will be able to record an
       endless amount of Television, News, and Internet Data. It is=20
designed to be "removable" so that it
       can be taken out and stored (it has its own off-line battery).=20
It is extremely versatile, because it is
       so compact, a typical system could incorporate multiple slots=20
and owners could own multiple
       090b8's. Over time, we expect its price to the end consumer=20
will drop. It will likely change the
       entire industry: PC's will be able to outperform Mainframes by=20
an order of magnitude, and
       supercomputers using thousands of this new device, will truly=20
be able to store information in
       ways that have never been done before."=20
       "We intend to sell the device upon introduction next year, as a=20
component Computer assembly
       houses can simply buy and add to their PCs, and Consumers can=20
buy and upgrade existing
       machines with. We may just NOT sell it to the top 10 PC=20
Companies who monopolize our
       industry. It's success hinges upon how reliable our ability to=20
produce such a technology is, one
       so far ahead of today's memory technologies that it is more=20
than 720 times the capacity of IBM's
       recent storage announcement, and perhaps a hundred years ahead.=20
Compared to what the Army
       allegedly discovered 50 years ago, our rendering is probably=20
rather primitive. Humanity must be,
       on the intelligence scale, the equivalent of a "low grade=20
moron" wherever this device's design
       came from. In a report read to me yesterday, we have been told=20
that IBM is extremely 'jumpy'
       about all this, and local confidential inquiries in the=20
Westchester County, New York area around
       IBM's "New Orchard Road, Armonk" headquarters seems to indicate=20
that while most IBM'ers
       agree with what we are doing 100%, IBM Corporate Relations=20
continues to try to find ways to
       upset our applecart, pardon my pun."=20
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