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Punch Cards

Jan 1, 1890

http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm Herman Hollerith developed a way for machines to store data with cards that have holes in them. He later created the company IBM.

Selectron Tube

Jan 1, 1946

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/selectron.htm The Selectron Tube, was the first storage device of storing 256 bits of data. The Selectron Tube was developed by Jan Rajchman.

CRT (aka Williams Tube)

Jan 1, 1946

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/willtube.htm The cathode-ray-tube (CRT) is a data storage device for early computers. This method of storage was able to store 512 bits and 1024 bits of storage.

Drum Memory-Computers

Jan 1, 1950

http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm Before the use of disks, they use Drum Memory-Computers. It used magnetic drums in order to store data.

Magnetic Tape

Jan 1, 1951

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/08/the-history-of-computer-data-storage-in-pictures/ The magnetic tape was first used as a storage device. But later on became a way to transfer data. It was able to transfer 7,200 characters a second. They were also 1200 feet long (and were all metal) which made it very heavy.

IBM 305 RAMAC

Sep 13, 1956

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/r/ramac.htm The first computer to be shipped with a hard drive. It contained fifty 24-inch platters. It was also capable of storing 5 million ASCII characters.

Chucking Grinder Co. (The beginning)

Jan 1, 1959

http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm Chucking Grinder Co, because working on the disk drives.

IBM 1301

Jun 2, 1961

http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm IBM introduces the 1301 storage device. This device was capable of storing 28 million ASCII characters.

Cassette Tapes

Oct 1, 1962

http://inventors.about.com/od/audiowaxrecordstomp3/a/Cassette_Tape.htm The cassette was first made in 1962. By a well known company called Phillips. It had the speed of 1.7/8 inches per second.

DRAM

Jan 1, 1966

http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=302 An early build of what we know RAM. Which is random access memory.

Floppy Disk

Jan 1, 1970

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/08/the-history-of-computer-data-storage-in-pictures/ The floppy disk was first used in the mid-1970's to the 1990's. They all came in different sizes every decade.

IBM 3340

Jan 1, 1973

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/wincdisk.htm IBM ships out the 3340 which contained two spindles. With the ability to hold 30MB of data. This was also the first hard-drive to ulitilze the Winchester technology.

Laserdisc

Jan 1, 1978

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/08/the-history-of-computer-data-storage-in-pictures/ The laserdisc is a precursor the the CD. It was first available in 1978.

Seagate ST506

Jan 1, 1980

http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm Seagate introduced the ST506. This was the first hard-drive for microcomputers.

SCSI-1

Jan 1, 1986

http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm SCSI-1 was developed.

CompactFlash

Jan 1, 1994

http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=293 The CompactFlash used flash memory. They are more robust than hard-drives that we know today besides Solid-State-Drives.

Zipdrive

Jan 1, 1994

http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=292 A copy of the floppy disk but the capability to hold more data.

SCSI-2

Jan 1, 1996

http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm SCSI-2 was approved.

SCSI-3

Jan 1, 1996

http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm SCSI-3 was approved.

Memory Stick

Oct 1, 1998

http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=287 The memory stick is close the USB flash drive we know today. This was a small card that was able to hold usually 256MBs.

SD Card

Oct 1, 2005

http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=374 A flash memory card. Most phones have slots to a variant of this called micro SD Cards.