{"id":559,"date":"2005-04-09T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2005-04-09T20:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/09\/lets-get-perpendicular\/"},"modified":"2005-04-09T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2005-04-09T20:23:17","slug":"lets-get-perpendicular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/09\/lets-get-perpendicular\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Get Perpendicular!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many computer hardware sites have posted the recent announcement from Hitachi about their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekzone.co.nz\/content.asp?contentid=3881\">perpendicular recording technology<\/a>.  The company claims that this new hard drive technique will allow the introduction of a one-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terabyte\">terabyte<\/a> drive within a year.<\/p>\n<p>However, the best part of their announcement comes in the form of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitachigst.com\/hdd\/research\/recording_head\/pr\/PerpendicularAnimation.html\">Let&#8217;s Get Perpendicular!<\/a> Macromedia Flash presentation they made available to explain the technology that should look very familiar to those of us who grew up with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.school-house-rock.com\/Bill.html\">I&#8217;m Just a Bill<\/a>&#8221; from saturday-morning episodes of School House Rock.<\/p>\n<p>Kick it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many computer hardware sites have posted the recent announcement from Hitachi about their perpendicular recording technology. The company claims that this new hard drive technique will allow the introduction of a one-terabyte drive within a year. However, the best part of their announcement comes in the form of the Let&#8217;s Get Perpendicular! Macromedia Flash presentation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/09\/lets-get-perpendicular\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let&#8217;s Get Perpendicular!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}