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OCR: 4-34 WOD PUT ER FILES AND DATA STO RAG put this in per rspective think about couple ot hologr 'aphic storage cubes like a pair ot dice that hold the contents of a half-mile high stack of books Researchers at the IBM Research Division's Zurich laboratory are on another technology with the potential to revolutionize comp ute storage They discovered that possible to manipulate indivi idual molecules at room temperature The researchers created nano- abacus using micro scopic soccerball-like carbon 50 molecules as the beads scanning tunneling microscope moves the beads along step s just one atom high The proce ss similar to the earliest form of abacus in which the beads moved qroves instead of rods These atoms could represent bits of stored data and eventually replace the much laraer maanetic p ...