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A History of Storage, From Punch Cards To Blu-ray

Posted by timothy on from the isn't-that-right-joey dept.

notthatwillsmith writes "Maximum PC just posted a comprehensive visual retrospective about data storage, starting with the once state of the art punch card and moving through the popular formats of yesteryear, including everything from magtape to Blu-ray discs. It's amazing how much data you could pack on a few hundred feet of half-inch magnetic tape!"

2 of 160 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Look At His Post History On Google! by Daimanta · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "google Daimanta bluray"

    Ok.

    I got this link:

    http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/05/190242

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  2. Re:Incomplete by tylerni7 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Take a look at your numbers... you keep switching the size of the LoC from 20TB to 20GB in your calculations...