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The 1980s saw the minicomputer age plateau as PCs were introduced. Manufacturers such as IBM, DEC and Hewlett-Packard continued to manufacture 14-inch hard drive systems as industry demanded higher storage; one such drive is the 1980 2.52 GB IBM 3380. But it was clear that smaller Winchester storage systems were eclipsing large platter hard drives.
The device, housed in the remains of a wooden-framed case of (uncertain) overall size 34 cm × 18 cm × 9 cm (13.4 in × 7.1 in × 3.5 in), [15] [16] was found as one lump, later separated into three main fragments which are now divided into 82 separate fragments after conservation efforts. Four of these fragments contain gears, while ...
The objective was a read only device costing less than $200 and medium costing less than $5. [7]: 513 IBM San Jose's Direct Access Storage Product Manager, Alan Shugart, assigned the job to David L. Noble, [7]: 513–523 who tried to develop a new-style tape for the purpose, but without success. The project was reassigned to Donald L. Wartner ...
The phonograph may be considered a storage device especially as machines of this vintage were able to record on blank cylinders. On a reel-to-reel tape recorder (Sony TC-630), the recorder is data storage equipment and the magnetic tape is a data storage medium. Various electronic storage devices, with a coin for scale.
8-inch floppy disk, inserted in drive, (3½-inch floppy diskette, in front, shown for scale) 3½-inch, high-density floppy diskettes with adhesive labels affixed The first commercial floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (203.2 mm) in diameter; [4] [5] they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and both drives and disks were then sold ...
The wall gun is now considered the oldest firearm ever found within the continental United States. ... pegged the 480-year-old device to the Coronado expedition.
Drum memory was a magnetic data storage device invented by Gustav Tauschek in 1932 in Austria. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Drums were widely used in the 1950s and into the 1960s as computer memory . Many early computers, called drum computers or drum machines, used drum memory as the main working memory of the computer. [ 3 ]
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