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The history of computer data storage, in pictures

royal.pingdom.com — Nowadays we are used to having hundreds of gigabytes of storage capacity in our computers. Even tiny MP3 players and other handheld devices usually have several gigabytes of storage. This was pure science fiction only a few decades ago.

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  • bongbishop, on 04/08/2008, -0/+5Dugg, it's amazing to see how far we've come in storage. Hard to believe it takes like a hundred of those refrigerator sized hard drives to equal the capacity of a typical ipod. Can't wait to see how fast things evolve with SSD drives replacing the traditional hard drives.
  • billflu, on 04/08/2008, -0/+2Some of those almost make a stone tablet look efficient... almost.
  • dssstrkl, on 04/08/2008, -0/+4I just had a flashback of installing Win95 via floppies...*shudder*
    • antdude, on 04/09/2008, -0/+295? We had CD-ROMs for that. Try 3.1.
  • JDOG, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1This is awesome. The selectron tube looks like it doubles as a nasty weapon.
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