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Magnetic Tape
Fritz Pfleumer, a German engineer, patented magnetic tape in 1928 -
Magnetic Drum
G. Taushek, an Austrian innovator, invented the magnetic drum in 1932. He based his invention off a discovery credited to Fritz Pfleumer. -
Williams Tube
Professor Fredrick C. Williams and his colleagues developed the first random access computer memory at the University of Manchester located in the United Kingdom. He used a series of electrostatic cathode-ray tubes for digital storage. A storage of 1024 bits of information was successfully implemented in 1948. -
Hard disk
A hard disk implements rotating platters, which stores and retrieves bits of digital information from a flat magnetic surface. -
Music Tape (Make me a mix tape?)
The compact audio cassette audio storage medium was introduced by Philips in 1963. The compact cassette had originally been intended for use in dictation machines, but soon became, and remains, a popular medium for distributing prerecorded music. -
DRAM
In 1966 Robert H. Dennard invented Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) cells, one-transistor memory cells that store each single bit of information as an electrical charge in an electronic circuit. This technology permitted major increases in memory density. -
Floppy Disk
In 1976 Alan Shugart developed a new floppy disk. The main reason for this development was that the normal 8 inch floppy disk was to large for using it in desktop computers. So the new 5.25 inch floppy disk was born. Its storage capability was 110 kilobytes. These new floppy disk drives were cheaper than the ones for 8 inch floppy disks and replaced them very quickly. -
3.5" floppy disk
The 3.5-inch floppy disk had significant advantages over its predecessors. It had a rigid metal cover that made it harder to damage the magnetic film inside. -
CD-Rom
The CD-ROM, an abbreviation for “Compact Disk Read-Only-Memory”, is an optical data storage medium using the same physical format as the audio compact discs -
Zip Drive
The Zip drive is a medium-capacity removable disk storage system, introduced by Iomega in late 1994 -
DVD
DVD is the new generation of optical disc storage technology. DVD is essentially a bigger, faster CD that can hold cinema-like video, better-than-CD audio, still photos, and computer data. -
CD-RW
A Compact Disc Rewritable, or CD-RW, is a rewritable version of CD-ROM. -
Multimedia card
The Multimedia Card (MMC) is a flash memory memory card standard. Unveiled in 1997 by Siemens and SanDisk, it is based on Toshiba's NAND-based flash memory, and is therefore much smaller than earlier systems based on Intel NOR-based memory such as Compact Flash. MMC is about the size of a postage stamp: 24mm x 32mm x 1.5mm. -
USB Key
USB Flash Drive are also known as "pen drives", "thumb drives", "flash drives", "USB keys", "USB memory keys", "USB sticks", "jump drives", "keydrives","vault drives" and many more names. -
SD Card
Secure Digital (also known as SD) is a flash memory memory card format. SD cards are based on Toshiba's older Multimedia Card (MMC) format, but add little-used DRM encryption features and allow for faster file transfers, as well as being physically slightly thicker. Devices with SD slots can use the thinner MMC cards, but SD cards won't fit into the thinner MMC slots. Standard SD cards measure 32 mm by 24 mm by 2.1 mm. -
Blu-Ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc is a next-generation optical disc format meant for high definition video (HD) and high density data storage, and is one of two competing standards for HD optical media -
HD-DVD
(High-Density Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical media format which is being developed as one standard for high-definition DVD -
Cloud Storage
