Do you ever stop to marvel at the amount of data you can carry around in your pocket? Of course not. Even those of us who grew up booting their Amigas from floppy disks take our 160 GB iPods and terabyte HDDs for granted. But it wasn't always so, and Royal Pingdom has compiled a fascinating trip down Memory Lane, as it were.
From the punched card (first used, astonishingly, in 1725) through the Selectron (made back when technology had real names) to the giant magnetic drum you see above (12,500 rpm and just 10 kB of storage), the gallery details the highlights of storage in pictures. It makes me wonder, though, where we'll be in, say, 20 years time.
The history of computer data storage, in pictures [Royal Pingdom. Thanks, Peter!]
