Solve : History of Data Storage?

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Answer» I FOUND this and thought it would be a good share. http://gadgets.fosfor.se/history-of-data-storage/They never mention books or papyrus or any other earlier forms of storing data.Quote In the late 1990S you could get ahold of 3 inch DISKS that could store 250 MB of data. that wasn't a Floppy disk, it was a LS-240, and it only held 240MB, not 250, AND you needed a LS-240 drive to read them. it was an interesting read nonetheless- thanks for the link, Carbon No mention of the Abacus long used in China. Or is it considered too volatile? Shake it and lose the data. And it did not do floating point, you had to use long integers.Just look at that hard drive. Wow. Quote from: Geek-9pm on January 12, 2009, 10:25:06 PM No mention of the Abacus long used in China. Or is it considered too volatile? Shake it and lose the data. And it did not do floating point, you had to use long integers. Haha, nice.And where is the mention of people's Noggan's? I guess it was considered unreliable. Every time a grandfather tells the story of his school going DAYS, the TEMPERATURE drops ten degrees and he had to walk twice as far as the last time they told it.

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I FOUND this and thought it would be a good share.

http://gadgets.fosfor.se/history-of-data-storage/They never mention books or papyrus or any other earlier forms of storing data.Quote

In the late 1990S you could get ahold of 3 inch DISKS that could store 250 MB of data.

that wasn't a Floppy disk, it was a LS-240, and it only held 240MB, not 250, AND you needed a LS-240 drive to read them.

it was an interesting read nonetheless- thanks for the link, Carbon
No mention of the Abacus long used in China.

Or is it considered too volatile? Shake it and lose the data.
And it did not do floating point, you had to use long integers.Just look at that hard drive. Wow.

Quote from: Geek-9pm on January 12, 2009, 10:25:06 PM

No mention of the Abacus long used in China.

Or is it considered too volatile? Shake it and lose the data.
And it did not do floating point, you had to use long integers.

Haha, nice.And where is the mention of people's Noggan's?

I guess it was considered unreliable. Every time a grandfather tells the story of his school going DAYS, the TEMPERATURE drops ten degrees and he had to walk twice as far as the last time they told it.

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