Scanning tunneling microscopy was invented at IBM Zurich in 1985. It is a very neat trick, but not yet commercially important.
> Dr. Hobbs should let IBM know that Quantum Computers are fiction and they don't really work.
Quantum computers aren't fiction, but so far they haven't gotten big enough to do anything useful. IBM isn't the only organisation interested. I've seen the quantum computer at the University of News South Wales, though we didn't get to talk to Michelle Simmons
http://sqc.com.au/team/
There's no connection to IBM.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
Reply by ●November 30, 20222022-11-30
corvid <bl@ckb.ird> wrote in news:tm935u$la0$1@gioia.aioe.org:
Dr. Hobbs should let IBM know that Quantum Computers are fiction and
they don't really work.
Reply by Anthony William Sloman●November 30, 20222022-11-30
On Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 12:17:13 AM UTC+11, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
> John Walliker <jrwal...@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:046ce50d-b6aa-461a...@googlegroups.com:
> > On Wednesday, 30 November 2022 at 09:26:25 UTC,
> > DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
> >> corvid <b...@ckb.ird> wrote in
> >> news:tm6elo$1is$1...@gioia.aioe.org:
> >> > On 11/29/22 11:08, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
> >> >> corvid <b...@ckb.ird> wrote in
> >> >> news:tm5jr2$1u8c$1...@gioia.aioe.org:
> >> >>
> >> >>> On 11/29/22 04:01, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org
> >> wrote:
> >> >>>> That article you mention turned me off on ever watching
> >> >>>> anyhting they produce, because just from the title alone I
> >> >>>> feel that they are pure clickspam bullshit.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> IBM's hallowed name was the clickbait used to trick me into
> >> >>> watching a crummy lightspeed CPU video.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
> >> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >> Nice try. Don't be a chump... oops... too late.
> >> >
> >> > The video didn't make me go "Wow".
> >> > These do better to demonstrate what IBM can do.
> >> >
> >> > IBM in atoms
> >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_%28atoms%29
> >> >
> >> > A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
> >> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0
> >> >
> >> <https://youtu.be/Szw0KwbKowI>
> >
> > One of my contemporaries at university was very much
> > involved in the development of GMR disc drives at IBM.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Parkin
> > https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/spintronics/
> >
> > John
> >
> Cool stuff. I always thought the leader would be Seagate, but they
> did nowhere near as much research and did not have the resources IBM
> did/does. So they were followers not leaders. But they made the
> first drives (under a different name) and I have always used them.
> But now I have had several IBM drives (back then). And always
> followed it. They held records in lineal write density and other
> aspects for years.
They've still got the money to push the technology pretty hard, but there are a lot of different technologies involved, and a company with "think" signs all over the place isn't great place to develop genuinely novel stuff.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
Reply by ●November 30, 20222022-11-30
John Walliker <jrwalliker@gmail.com> wrote in
news:046ce50d-b6aa-461a-8556-04e68ecbe9acn@googlegroups.com:
> On Wednesday, 30 November 2022 at 09:26:25 UTC,
> DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
>> corvid <b...@ckb.ird> wrote in
>> news:tm6elo$1is$1...@gioia.aioe.org:
>> > On 11/29/22 11:08, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
>> >> corvid <b...@ckb.ird> wrote in
>> >> news:tm5jr2$1u8c$1...@gioia.aioe.org:
>> >>
>> >>> On 11/29/22 04:01, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org
>> wrote:
>> >>>> That article you mention turned me off on ever watching
>> >>>> anyhting they produce, because just from the title alone I
>> >>>> feel that they are pure clickspam bullshit.
>> >>>
>> >>> IBM's hallowed name was the clickbait used to trick me into
>> >>> watching a crummy lightspeed CPU video.
>> >>>
>> >>> Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Nice try. Don't be a chump... oops... too late.
>> >
>> > The video didn't make me go "Wow".
>> > These do better to demonstrate what IBM can do.
>> >
>> > IBM in atoms
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_%28atoms%29
>> >
>> > A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
>> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0
>> >
>> <https://youtu.be/Szw0KwbKowI>
>
> One of my contemporaries at university was very much
> involved in the development of GMR disc drives at IBM.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Parkin
> https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/spintronics/
>
> John
>
Cool stuff. I always thought the leader would be Seagate, but they
did nowhere near as much research and did not have the resources IBM
did/does. So they were followers not leaders. But they made the
first drives (under a different name) and I have always used them.
But now I have had several IBM drives (back then). And always
followed it. They held records in lineal write density and other
aspects for years.
Reply by John Walliker●November 30, 20222022-11-30
On Wednesday, 30 November 2022 at 09:26:25 UTC, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
> corvid <b...@ckb.ird> wrote in news:tm6elo$1is$1...@gioia.aioe.org:
> > On 11/29/22 11:08, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
> >> corvid <b...@ckb.ird> wrote in news:tm5jr2$1u8c$1...@gioia.aioe.org:
> >>
> >>> On 11/29/22 04:01, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org
> wrote:
> >>>> That article you mention turned me off on ever watching anyhting
> >>>> they produce, because just from the title alone I feel that they
> >>>> are pure clickspam bullshit.
> >>>
> >>> IBM's hallowed name was the clickbait used to trick me into
> >>> watching a crummy lightspeed CPU video.
> >>>
> >>> Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
> >>>
> >>
> >> Nice try. Don't be a chump... oops... too late.
> >
> > The video didn't make me go "Wow".
> > These do better to demonstrate what IBM can do.
> >
> > IBM in atoms
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_%28atoms%29
> >
> > A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0
> >
> <https://youtu.be/Szw0KwbKowI>
corvid <bl@ckb.ird> wrote in news:tm6elo$1is$1@gioia.aioe.org:
> On 11/29/22 11:08, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
>> corvid <bl@ckb.ird> wrote in news:tm5jr2$1u8c$1@gioia.aioe.org:
>>
>>> On 11/29/22 04:01, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org
wrote:
>>>> That article you mention turned me off on ever watching anyhting
>>>> they produce, because just from the title alone I feel that they
>>>> are pure clickspam bullshit.
>>>
>>> IBM's hallowed name was the clickbait used to trick me into
>>> watching a crummy lightspeed CPU video.
>>>
>>> Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
>>>
>>
>> Nice try. Don't be a chump... oops... too late.
>
> The video didn't make me go "Wow".
> These do better to demonstrate what IBM can do.
>
> IBM in atoms
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_%28atoms%29
>
> A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0
>
Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in
news:9e3ca2a5-b141-4231-8310-df9a38aa6528n@googlegroups.com:
> On Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 6:06:17 AM UTC+11,
> DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
>> Anthony William Sloman <bill....@ieee.org> wrote in
>> news:56f81bca-1125-466b...@googlegroups.com:
>> > Lots of people are active in quantum computing. IBM doesn't
>> > stick out.
>> >
>> Actually, recently... they do.
>
> Or say they do.
>
It's all about the Qbits. Everyone started out small. As in low
number.
Now things are stepping up. IBM is right there at the forefront too.
<https://youtu.be/Szw0KwbKowI>
Reply by corvid●November 29, 20222022-11-29
On 11/29/22 11:08, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
> corvid <bl@ckb.ird> wrote in news:tm5jr2$1u8c$1@gioia.aioe.org:
>
>> On 11/29/22 04:01, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
>>> That article you mention turned me off on ever watching anyhting
>>> they produce, because just from the title alone I feel that they
>>> are pure clickspam bullshit.
>>
>> IBM's hallowed name was the clickbait used to trick me into
>> watching a crummy lightspeed CPU video.
>>
>> Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
>>
>
> Nice try. Don't be a chump... oops... too late.
Reply by Anthony William Sloman●November 29, 20222022-11-29
On Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 6:06:17 AM UTC+11, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
> Anthony William Sloman <bill....@ieee.org> wrote in
> news:56f81bca-1125-466b...@googlegroups.com:
> > Lots of people are active in quantum computing. IBM doesn't stick
> > out.
> >
> Actually, recently... they do.