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78-RPM Records
The first 78-RPM records were made of shellac or wax in the 19th century, but in 1904 they were replaced with a type of plastic, then in the 1970s these records were pressed on recycled vinyl. It is played on a phonograph. It plays music. They are still popular today because tehy can, unlike today's CDs they can be used on a turntable for DJs. -
Solid State Drives
SSDs had origins in the 1950s. They require a computer or even now adays could be hooked to gaming consoles. They can hold anywhere up to 1 GB to 4 terabytes. These are more popular than Hard Disk Drives because they don't have any moving parts. They include many things including flash drives, memory cards, etc... -
Hard Disk Drive
The first HDD held 3.75 MB. The HDD can now hold up to 8 terabytes. HDD are going out of style due to SSDs which compare by not having moving parts. -
8-Track Tape Stereo 8
The 8-Track Tapes are used for recorded audio. The device used to retrieve data is a type of radio that can be a car radio made by GE and many other companies, and a radio that plays out of the car. It used a tape head as the reading mechanism and it's encoded in an analog signal. These were popular during the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Radios stopped playing them to various computer-based methods. They ultimately fell to CDs -
8-Inch Floppy Disk
The first 8-inch floppy disk was a read only disk and 80 KB. They were used in mainframe computers. -
Floppy Disk
Floppy disks are used for transferring data between computers. The device used to retrieve data was stored in the computer and was called a floppy disk drive (FDD). Some of the significant facts is that it was used for more than two decades for transferring data. A symbol of a floppy disk is used as the save button in Windows. It was popular during the late 20th century. It declined in use because of competitor's products such as the Iomega Zip Disk -
5.25 Inch Floppy Disk was made
The first 5.25 inch floppy disk stored 223 KB of data. -
3 Inch Floppy Disk
The 3 inch floppy disk was used to hold 360 KB of data. -
3.5 inch floppy disk HP single sided was made
The first 3.5 inch floppy disk held 264 KB of data -
USB Flash Drives
The flash drive now can hold up to 128 GB, but back then it only held up to 8 MB. It is read by a computer and increases the chance of not having to overwrite data on computer.
