history of storage devices
The (not so long) and interesting history of computer storage devices
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Punched Cards
1780
Card catalogue
1846
Paper tape
1928
Magnetic tape
1932
Magnetic drum memory
1947
Vacuum Tubes
1949
Mercury delay lines
1956
RAMAC
1957
Twistor memory
1959
Magnetic disk
1961
Magneto-restrictive delay line
1962
Card Random Access Memory
1962
Disk cartridge
1962
Thin film memory
1964
Data Cell Drive
1964
Transformer Read Only Storage
1966
8-bit RAM
1967
Photo-digital storage
1968
8" Floppy disk
1969
1975
Hard Disk Drive
1976
DRAM
1977
Datasette
1977
ROM Chips
1978
Laser Disk
1978
5.25" Floppy
1979
Bubble Memory
1981
3.5" Floppy
1982
1984
Flash Memory
1983
CD ROM
1986
Magneto-optical disk
1991
Floptical Drive
1992
SSD
1994
Compact Flash
1995
DVD
1995
Iomega Jaz
1994
Iomega Zip Disk
1995
Iomega Ditto
1997
CD-RW
1997
SuperDisk (LS-120)
1999
IBM Microdrive
1999
Iomega Clik!
2000
Flash drive
2003
Bluray
2008
Iomega Rev
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