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Humble Hard Drive Wins NobelPrize
By encinoman
It&;s good to see the discoverers of the basic science around hard drive technology winning the 2007 Nobel Prize. The hard drive has become the ultimate commodity product&;everyone reading this has one, but like Rodney Dangerfield, the spinning disk that stores your applications, music and porn &;gets no respect.&;
One industry spokesperson described manufacturing disk drives as &;the longest-running industrial philanthropy.&; If someone could find a way to make money with hard drives, that would be worthy of an economics Nobel!
This entry was posted on October 10, 2007 at 5:17 pm and is filed under 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, Computers, technology, technology-journalism.
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