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Used from 1725 all the way through the 1970s. This was the first form of electronic storage.
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1846-1990s
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The underlying concept of cloud computing dates back to the 1950s. After the dot-com bubble, Amazon played a key role in all the development of cloud computing in 2000.
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This allows for inexpensive mass storage of information, so it is a key part of the computer revolution. The IBM 726 was one of the first practical high-speed magnetic tape systems for electronic digital computers.
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The IBM 350 disk file served as the storage component for the Random Access Method of Accounting and Control.
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The IBM 1301 Disk Drive was announced for use with IBM’s 7000-series of mainframe computers. Maximum capacity was 28 million characters and the disks rotated at 1,800 R.P.M.
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This emerged from a team under the direction of Tom Kilburn at the University of Manchester on its Atlas computer . It permitted a computer to use its storage capacity to switch rapidly among multiple programs or users and is a key requirement for timesharing.
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The IBM 1311 was the first disk drive IBM made with a removable disk pack.
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IBM 1360 delivered the first of its photo-digital storage systems to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The system could read and write up to a trillion bits of information
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The first floppy disks were 8” disks that were released to the public by IBM.
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Seagate Technology created the first hard disk drive. The disk held 5 megabytes of data.
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Able to hold 550 megabytes of prerecorded data, CD-ROMs grew out of music Compact Disks (CDs).
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8.5 GB, about ten times the storage of a CD. These are popular for movies and computer files.
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Arguably the most significant storage innovation since the 1.44MB floppy disk, the advent of USB flash drives in 2000 signaled the eventual end of the road for floppies.
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Beat out HD-dvd for the standard in hd movies. Can hold about 50 GB of space per disc.
