Comments on: The history of computer data storage, in pictures

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:59:24 +0000

I remember my first program, on Hollerith cards. My first computer had 64 MB of memory. I thought I was living in the fast lane. Today, life really is fast and getting faster. My children know more about computers than most graduates did when I finished. Don’t ask when, I won’t tell.

By: welson

welson — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:02:08 +0000

Thanks to these Computer architectures who continued this cycle of memory devices improvement and now a days don’t having any problem while carrying 500Gb hard disk in our pocket.

By: Tom Shipp

Tom Shipp — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:02:37 +0000

I used everyone of these in my career starting in the early 1960′s.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:45:44 +0000

I had that exact same Commodore cassette player for my Vic 20, you just brought back memories of an innocent childhood 25 years ago. Cheers.

By: Sky

Sky — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:48:40 +0000

Interesting. First, I could never figure out why anyone would want to spend so much money to build such a big harddisk with only 5MB of space!
Though thanks to IBM and all the genius that keep working on this, and we get to enjoy our small size laptop with Gigabytes of spaces. =)

By: Pink Laptops

Pink Laptops — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:12:34 +0000

It really is amazing to see how fast technology develops. I remember years ago when a 64Mb HDD was the latest tech. Now you can get over 1Tb. Simply incredible.

By: Fajas

Fajas — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:36:10 +0000

Oh boy ., I am old. I remember punch cards while in college.

By: mühendis

mühendis — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:17:03 +0000

Way to make me feel old, guys. I actually used [i.e. programmed with] both punch cards and paper tape. It felt high tech at the time.

By: Retro delight: Gallery of early computers (1940s – 1960s) | Royal Pingdom

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:29:56 +0000

[...] This computer is most famous for being the first commercial computer delivered with a hard disk drive. The hard disk drive could store a total of just under 5 MB and consisted of 50 24-inch diameter disks. The 305 RAMAC was one of the largest computers IBM ever built. (If you find ancient hard drives fascinating, check out our post about the history of computer data storage.) [...]

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:28:42 +0000

Hey, no one has mentioned the other storage medium that was widely used by consumers beginning around 1900 — Piano rolls. These were similar to punched tape, but were large paper rolls that each contained a tune. The mechanism in the piano used air pressure through the holes in the paper that caused the wires inside to be struck by the felt hammers to produce the tune.