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ANNOUNCING A BREAKTHROUGH IN READ/WRITE MEMORY !! Cranford, NJ
1998-Jan-31

In a shocking double barrelled announcement, ACC, which had been for
some time denying any interest in "productizing" the Transcapacitor, has
apparently been biding its time while electronic semiconductor
physicists and chemists worked on recent wafer scale development. Today,
without any warning at all ACC did a 180 degree TURNABOUT, citing
Industrial Secrecy needs, and has suddenly announced that it had not
only released photographs of the prototype TRANSCAPACITOR to PRESS, who
also visited and photograph ed hundreds of photos of various parts of
ACC's New Jersey facilities and personnel working there on Friday, but
also had an opportunity to view the Transcapacitor at Work, and to
discuss the most recent revolutionary discovery from the Lab
Shopkeeper's Notebook: LIQUID MEMORY.
ANNOUNCING (Part 1): TRANSCAP TO BE BROUGHT INTO FULL PRODUCTION BY 2002
Basing it's predictions on the progress of its work on the TCAP wafer
scale fabrication effort, ACC indicated that it's newly formed business
"ACC Labs" intends to BRING THE TCAP STORAGE DEVICE, a solid state 90GB
Disk Drive, to market within "four to five years" or less, indicating
that a RAID ARRAY of 12 Such Disk "chips" may be the first product it
offers for sale in the TCAP line.  That product would have over a 1
Terabyte capacity, indicated a spokesperson, and would occupy only a 2
inch square by 3.5 inch area.
Anthony Chen, head of the effort to build ultra-density
"Right at this point, we are in the process of engineering out
irregularities in the process we are using to yield 45 Cell / 2 GB per
Cell wafer-fabs.  It will take us the original two years to complete
this effort, providing us with TWO, not one, variation.  The first, the
Solid State 90GB Disk Drive, which shall then take an additional 12 to
18 months to bring to market, beating the IBM Product Development cycle
handbooks by, maybe, 12 months, will be ready.  During that time, we
hope to Patent three vari ations, the second being the lower capacity,
higher degree of 'intercommunications' - 'Neural Network Array' based on
24 Billion 'Complex Transcapacitor Nodes'.  This array will require
advanced Neural Net software to manage, and will take quite a bit longer
to debug.  We have not yet announced WHAT the Third Variation is, yet,
so I can't comment on that one."
A Spokesperson for ACC indicated it had "no comment" on what effect the
TCAP products might have on the value of conventional magnetic disk
arive products or the companies which manufacture them.
Chen indicated in response to the question "How does it work?", with:
"Well, you have to understand, each tiny TCAP device acts like a power
source and a power sink, like the 'scales of justice'.  Once energized,
it hardly loses any power. External currents simply effect the balance
of 'source electrons' to 'sink electrons', requiring only minute changes
to effect a very large data read or write.  We have found that it uses a
'quantum inversion field' to maintain charges within its domain, and
simply redistributes them from Source to Sink and back, causing a change
only to t he Balance, like a scale moving in one direction or the other
up or down. We called this the 'Shulman' effect, because it was his
theory about it that proved correct, and so the name stuck, despite
Jack's insistence that we not associate him with the device. He's much
very more shy than the rest of us are!" ANNOUNCING (Part 2): LIQUID
MEMORY DEVICE "DISCOVERED" BY ACC LABS
At the groundbreaking effort announcing the formation of ACC Labs, in
Cranford, American's president, Jack A. Shulman, indicated to Press,
that the "number of innovations in the Notebook appear endless from
where we view things."
ACC announced it was working on a very unusual development, a high speed
liquid based memory device with "submolecular magnetic domain"
addressibility, based on "ceramic metallites porous enough to absorb a
special liquid suspension that quite literally enable the cermet to, in
a very orderly fashion, store information in a manner not unlike
old-style magnetic core memory, which can be read or retrieved via
intersecting electromagnetic signals at specific frequencies".
ACC indicated that the preliminary study of drawings that were leading
it down the path of building a second prototypical "alleged alien
technology" device, appeared to addressable memory with a capacity of
about 10000 to 100000 times the density of today's "S-DRAM DIMM MEMORY",
with longer refresh rates, lower power consumption, and a much higher
speed - on an order of 3 Gigaherz cycle times.
A spokesperson indicated: "This is consistent with our perception that
this even higher density faster memory was probably used in modest
amounts as the 'operative storage' in a computer not unlike our own, but
one where larger, lower density storage, like the TCAP, were used for
offline archive.  It's strange to consider the TCAP, capable of storing
1 Terabyte in the space of a flashlight battery, as an analogy to a Tape
Drive, but at the speeds we are talking about, the TCAP is much slower,
but perhaps mo re 'permanent' than Liquid Memory. Our next 'Engineering
Marvels' reverse engineering exercise, analyzing what appears to be the
equivalent of a power source and logical control 'phase loop lock'
circuit on a scale that appears unparalleled in our experience, may help
us look further out into the original designers' theories, accelerating
some of what we are doing."
American indicated that it would be regularly releasing photos,
documents and scientific studies that would assist the Public in
understanding the nature of what it has been engaging in in-depth
research into, through the auspices of the newly organized ACC Labs.

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