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Magnetic Storage
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Wire Recording
Magnetic storage in the form of wire recording audio recording on a wire was publicized by Oberlin Smith in the Sept 8, 1888 issue of Electrical World. -
The first publicly
The first publicly demonstrated in Paris Exposition of 1900 magnetic recorder was invented by Valdemar Poulsen in 1898. -
Develop Poulsen's Device
In 1928, Fritz Pfleumer developed the first magnetic tape recorder. -
Hard Disk Drive (HDD)
In 1953, IBM recognized the immediate application for what it termed a "Random Access File" having high capacity and rapid random access at a relatively low cost. After considering technologies such as wire matrices, rod arrays, drums, drum arrays, etc., the engineers at IBM's San Jose California laboratory invented the hard disk drive. -
Floppy Disk
Also know as a diskette, floppy, or FD, the floppy disk is
another type of storage medium that uses magnetic storage technology to store information. Floppy disks were once a common storage device for computers and were very common from the mid-1970s through to the start of the 21st century. -
Optical Storage
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LaserDisc
LaserDisc was first available on the market in Atlanta, Georgia, two years after the introduction of the VHS VCR, and four years before the introduction of the CD. -
Compact Disk Creation
The compact disc, (or CD for short) is a form of optical storage, a technology that employs lasers and lights to read and write data. Initially, compact discs were used purely for music, but in the late 1980s. -
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Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA)
The Optical Storage Technology Association was an international trade association formed to promote the use of recordable optical data storage technologies and products. It was responsible for the creation and maintenance of the Universal Disk Format file system specification, which was notably adopted for DVD-Video. It was incorporated in California in 1992 and dissolved in 2018. -
Optical Storage Device Published
In 2005, the patent for an Optical Storage Device in the form of a compact disc recorder was published by Peter J. Keller and Michael J. Kelley.