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A History of Storage, From Punch Cards To Blu-ray
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!"
...we notched lines on sticks. And we LIKED IT THAT WAY. We even developed a counting system out of it. See?
IIIVIIIX
That's 10. Ignore the previous notches. Some young whippersnappers thought it would be funny to do "subtractive" forms whereby IV would be "four". Oooo. I'm so impressed. Not. GET OFF MY LAWN.
Oh, and they forgot about magnetic drums. :-P
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
Bird : Bird : Giant Eye : Pyramid : Bird : Giant Eye : Dead Fish : Cat Head : Cat Head : Cat Head :
Clay tablets!?!?!? You young whipper-snappers with yer mobile devices. In my day we used a cave wall. Better resolution.
rewriting history since 2109
It's nicer with metric prefixes.
Punch Card (960 bits) ~= 6 picoLOCs
Audio Tape (1400 kB) ~= 70 picoLOCs
Magnetic tape (35 kB) ~= 1.75 nanoLOCs
8" floppy (1.2 MB) ~= 60 nanoLOCs
5.25" floppy (1.2 MB) ~= 60 nanoLOCs
3.5" floppy ~= 72 nanoLOCs
SmartMedia (128 MB) ~= 6.4 microLOCs
LS-120 (240 MB) ~= 12 microLOCs
CD (700MB) ~= 35 microLOCs
Zip drive (750 MB) ~= 37 microLOCs
MiniDisc (1 GB) ~= 50 microLOCs
Jaz drive (2 GB) ~= 100 microLOCs
Magneto-optical drive (2.6 GB) ~= 130 microLOCs
Microdrive (8 GB) ~= 400 microLOCs
DVD (8.5 GB) ~= 425 microLOCs
Colorado backup (14 GB) ~= 700 microLOCs
HD-DVD (30 GB) ~= 1.5 milliLOCs
SD (32 GB) ~= 1.6 milliLOCs
Blu-ray (50 GB) ~= 2.5 milliLOCs
USB flash (64 GB) ~= 3.2 milliLOCs
Compact flash (100 GB) ~= 5 milliLOCs
IBM Magnetic Tape (1 TB) ~= 50 milliLOCs
T10000 Magnetic Tape (1 TB) ~= 50 milliLOCs
2.5" portable hard drive (1 TB) ~= 50 milliLOCs
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