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A Teardown History of PC Data Storage -- The EIectronics Inside 17

 

 

I don't think it's much of a secret that I'm quite into computing. So lets look back at the history of computer storage, and compare some of the techniques, methods and hardware used.

 

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  • Nice video.

     

    I have worked with magnetic tape, paper tape, paper cards and cassette tape media.

    paper tape came in high and low speed. The low speed was ten characters per second. The high speed was 300 characters per second.

    Paper cards ran from ten cards/second to 300 cards per second.

    Cassette tapes ran about 300 characters per second.

     

    So it was not just storage capability, but also access speed.

     

    DAB

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  • Nice video.

     

    I have worked with magnetic tape, paper tape, paper cards and cassette tape media.

    paper tape came in high and low speed. The low speed was ten characters per second. The high speed was 300 characters per second.

    Paper cards ran from ten cards/second to 300 cards per second.

    Cassette tapes ran about 300 characters per second.

     

    So it was not just storage capability, but also access speed.

     

    DAB

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    Absolutely, read write speed is critical! Although I guess it was kind of relative to the media stored too? I certainly wouldn't be making 2TB backups on to media the speed of a Floppy drive?

     

    I remember seeing an interview with a data storage specialist once, he was asked if he wanted to back up some data for as long as physically possible. He said using a punched plastic tape would be the most reliable for a long periof of time!