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MMMMMMHHHHhhhhhhh HHHHHHMMMMMMMMmmmmmm I think a cubic piece of silicon 1" in diameter, if accessed at the atomic level could store optically enough information to contain the entire Library of Congress. It would be a stationary cube with dozens if no hundres of lasers capable of pinpoint accuracy. In our estimates, one bit of data require 33,000 atoms on CD-ROM. Therefore, 1 bit, if it were possible to "read" at the atomic level, could be handled with 1 atom. Ie., it is either a one or a zero. Therefore, the capacity of CD-ROM, is 1 bit, times 33,000 atoms, times 660,000,000 bytes times 8. 660,000,000 times 8 = a large amount 33,000 times 660,000,000 times 8 = a larger amount. Your comment Sir?