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Jacquard invents the punched card
Joseph Marie Jacquard invents the punched card to control sequences of data on his patented line of clothing looms. http://whatis.techtarget.com/reference/History-of-the-punch-card -
Magnetic drum memory is invented in Austria
Invented in 1932 in Austria, magnetic drum storage was the first type of constantly accessible memory for a computer to be useable. It paved the way for RAM (random access memory).
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First commercially available flash memory
Toshiba sells the first EEPROM flash memory. Flash storage boasts almost no load times, however, it is very expensive for high capacities. http://www.flash25.toshiba.com/ -
Serial ATA storage format created
SATA (serial ATA) is the most used standard for storage interfaces. It is even used in the very computer you are reading this from.
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NVM express is conceptualized
NVMe storage was introduced as supposedly being the fastest storage medium ever made available to performance enthusiasts and high-end consumers.
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Samsung announces tiny solid-state drive
This SSD (solid-state drive) weighs less than a paper clip, holds 512 gigabytes of data, and has a unhealthily fast speed of 1,500 megabytes-per-second.
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First Hard Drive is created
The IBM 350 Disk File, invented by Reynold Johnson, was introduced in 1956 with the IBM 305 RAMAC computer. This drive had fifty 24-inch (0.6 m) platters, with a total capacity of five million 6-bit characters (3.75 megabytes).
http://www.pcworld.com/article/127105/article.html
