Screaming Penguin

Slashdot recently published a link to a company touting 90GB solid-state hard drives, which deliver data 100,000 times faster than any other disk drive ever produced. American Computer claims to have developed this technology and that it should be available to consumers sometime in the Y2K at the miniscule price of only $895. The company claims to have developed 25 other key technologies. I am not a reporter and don't have the time or know-how to try and confirm any of there claims, but I did find the following paragraph somewhat unsettling:"We have no idea where the drawings from which we derived our TCAP came from. They were extremely complex but not that detailed, we had to fill in the gaps. Obviously, very deep studies were performed, and IBM and Western Electric (Bell Labs) were involved in the 1947-1955 analysis of this technology, but from WHERE did it come? Neither IBM nor Bell could figure out what it did back then, but we have the advantages of a very brilliant scientist, and 50 years later science. Yet, compared to what the Army allegedly discovered 50 years ago, our rendering is probably rather primitive, but over time, as we develop more facilities, we should be able to migrate the Transcap into mainstream, replacing the Transistor. Average Humanity must be, on the intelligence scale, the equivalent of a "low grade moron" compared with wherever this device's design came from. In a report read to me yesterday, we have been told that IBM is extremely 'jumpy' about all this, and local confidential inquiries in the Westchester County, New York area around IBM's "New Orchard Road, Armonk" headquarters seems to indicate that while most IBM'ers agree with what we are doing 100%, IBM Corporate Relations continues to try to find ways to upset our applecart, pardon my pun."I hope thats not their official press release. I imagine most investors and consumers might have a hard time swallowing the idea. Although it might be an ingenious plow for garnering free advertising nd publicity.