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From: meister@linus.UUCP (Phillip W. Servita)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Smallest possible memory element
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 14:15:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 14:15:45 1985
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>
>	Given the technology to do it, the smallest a computer memory
>could be made would probably be an electron, in that a spin in one
>direction would be a one and a spin in the other direction would be a 
>zero.  Don't ask me how you would go about building a computer around
>this, but give computer technology about 10 years to find a way.
>
>							Eric

   there is a problem here. according to Heisenberg, reading a file
would irreversibly garble it.

                                          -phil