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Posted in Main on April 8th, 2008 by Pingdom 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. For example, the first hard disk drive to have gigabyte capacity was as big as a refrigerator, and that was in 1980. Not so long ago! Pingdom stores a lot of monitoring data every single day, and considering how much we take todays storage capacity for granted, its interesting to look back and get things in perspective. Here is a look back at some interesting storage devices from the early computer era. The Selectron tube The Selectron tube had a capacity of 256 to 4096 bits (32 to 512 bytes). The 4096-bit Selectron was 10 inches long and 3 inches wide. Originally developed in 1946, the memory storage device proved expensive and suffered from production problems, so it never became a success.

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Above: The 1024-bit Selectron. Punch cards Early computers often used punch cards for input both of programs and data. Punch cards were in common use until the mid-1970s. It should be noted that the use of punch cards predates computers. They were used as early as 1725 in the textile industry (for controlling mechanized textile looms).

Above: Card from a Fortran program: Z(1) = Y + W(1)

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Above left: Punch card reader. Above right: Punch card writer. Punched tape Same as with punch cards, punched tape was originally pioneered by the textile industry for use with mechanized looms. For computers, punch tape could be used for data input but also as a medium to output data. Each row on the tape represented one character.

Above: 8-level punch tape (8 holes per row). Magnetic drum memory Invented all the way back in 1932 (in Austria), it was widely used in the 1950s and 60s as the main working memory of computers. In the mid-1950s, magnetic drum memory had a capacity of around 10 kB.

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Above left: The magnetic Drum Memory of the UNIVAC computer. Above right: A 16-inch-long drum from the IBM 650 computer. It had 40 tracks, 10 kB of storage space, and spun at 12,500 revolutions per minute. The hard disk drive The first hard disk drive was the IBM Model 350 Disk File that came with the IBM 305 RAMAC computer in 1956. It had 50 24-inch discs with a total storage capacity of 5 million characters (just under 5 MB).

Above: IBM Model 350, the first-ever hard disk drive. The first hard drive to have more than 1 GB in capacity was the IBM 3380 in 1980 (it could store 2.52 GB). It was the size of a refrigerator, weighed 550 pounds (250 kg), and the price when it was introduced ranged from $81,000 to $142,400.

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Above left: A 250 MB hard disk drive from 1979. Above right: The IBM 3380 from 1980, the first gigabytecapacity hard disk drive. The Laserdisc We mention it here mainly because it was the precursor to the CD-ROM and other optical storage solutions. It was mainly used for movies. The first commercially available laserdisc system was available on the market late in 1978 (then called Laser Videodisc and the more funkily branded DiscoVision) and were 11.81 inches (30 cm) in diameter. The discs could have up to 60 minutes of audio/video on each side. The first laserdiscs had entirely analog content. The basic technology behind laserdiscs was invented all the way back in 1958.

Above left: A Laserdisc next to a regular DVD. Above right: Another Laserdisc. The floppy disc The diskette, or floppy disk (named so because they were flexible), was invented by IBM and in common use from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s. The first floppy disks were 8 inches, and later in came 5.25 and 3.5-inch formats. The first floppy disk, introduced in 1971, had a capacity of 79.7 kB, and was read-only. A read-write version came a year later.

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Above left: An 8-inch floppy and floppy drive next to a regular 3.5-inch floppy disk. Above right: The convenience of easily removable storage media. Magnetic tape Magnetic tape was first used for data storage in 1951. The tape device was called UNISERVO and was the main I/O device on the UNIVAC I computer. The effective transfer rate for the UNISERVO was about 7,200 characters per second. The tapes were metal and 1200 feet long (365 meters) and therefore very heavy.

Above left: The row of tape drives for the UNIVAC I computer. Above right: The IBM 3410 Magnetic Tape Subsystem, introduced in 1971. And of course, we cant mention magnetic tape without also mentioning the standard compact cassette, which was a popular way of data storage for personal computers in the late 70s and 80s. Typical data rates for compact cassettes were 2,000 bit/s. You could store about 660 kB per side on a 90-minute tape.

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Above left: The standard compact cassette. Above right: The Commodore Datassette is sure to bring up fond memories for people who grew up in the 80s. There are so many interesting pictures from the good old days when you look around on the web. These were some of the best we could find, and we hope you liked them.
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The Selectron. The punch card. The punch card reader and writer. Punched tape 1 and 2. UNIVAC magnetic drum. IBM 650 computer magnetic drum. The IBM Model 350 Disk File. 250 MB hard drisk drive from 1979. The IBM 3380. Laserdisc vs DVD. Held Laserdisc. 8-inch floppy drive. 8-inch floppy in use. UNISERVO and UNIVAC I. The IBM 3410. The compact cassette. The Datassette. And as always, Wikipedia was a great source for checking out the actual facts. EDIT: Removed the comment about the Commodore Datassette sound, since it was a factual error: Removed this: (For those who werent there, you could hear the sound of the data being read as a high-pitched, screechy sound while you were loading your programs.) Tags: computing-history, data-storage, Engineering, history, Photos, pictures

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rclampe And, by the way, the 1st computer I worked with (long before I owned one) had a large operator's console with 16 KB (yes I said KB) of memory, and card storage. And before that I worked in an auto plant where the "Tab Room" featured a wired-board programmed IBM computer that did an amazing 6 FLOPs/sec.!!

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Now I carry a shirt-pocket internet-able device with 64 GB, and falling behind the curve every day.

rclampe There was also the punch-card Jacquard textile looms in the 19th century that probly inspired Hollerith. And does anyone remember "Otsego Project", which I recall as an experimental large scale drum storage machine by old AT&T.

kitty112233 That's MY H|W done then!!!! Thank-You very much for creating this website!!!!!

Frank

I remember my first program, on Hollerith cards. My first computer had 64 MB of memory. I thought I was living in the fast lane. Today, life really is fast and getting faster. My children know more about computers than most graduates did when I finished. Don't ask when, I won't tell.

welson

Thanks to these Computer architectures who continued this cycle of memory devices improvement and now a days don't having any problem while carrying 500Gb hard disk in our pocket.

Tom Shipp

I used everyone of these in my career starting in the early 1960's.

Nick

I had that exact same Commodore cassette player for my Vic 20, you just brought back memories of an innocent childhood 25 years ago. Cheers.

Sky

Interesting. First, I could never figure out why anyone would want to spend so much money to build such a big harddisk with only 5MB of space! Though thanks to IBM and all the genius that keep working on this, and we get to enjoy our small size laptop with Gigabytes of spaces. =)

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Pink Laptops

It really is amazing to see how fast technology develops. I remember years ago when a 64Mb HDD was the latest tech. Now you can get over 1Tb. Simply incredible.

Fajas

Oh boy ., I am old. I remember punch cards while in college.

mhendis

Way to make me feel old, guys. I actually used [i.e. programmed with] both punch cards and paper tape. It felt high tech at the time.

Elaine

Hey, no one has mentioned the other storage medium that was widely used by consumers beginning around 1900 -- Piano rolls. These were similar to punched tape, but were large paper rolls that each contained a tune. The mechanism in the piano used air pressure through the holes in the paper that caused the wires inside to be struck by the felt hammers to produce the tune.

psihometrika

actually on some systems it would play out loud when loading a cassette, most systems used the output of the cassette player which disabled the internal speaker, i had a ti/99 that would play the cassettes while loading them.

immodedoona

Hi all! As a fresh royal.pingdom.com user i just want to say hello to everyone else who uses this site :D

Antanida

Thanks! gut text

Outsider

Commodore released a new version of the casette unit, called Load-It! if I recall correctly, with a knob to adjust the head (and a led meter showing the level of signal), instead of just hole for a screw driver because of the unreliability of loading non-pirated software. I never had a Load-It Datasette, so loading games was a pain in the backside.

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Outsider

I recall that drum memory was also used for primary data storage (RAM). It was used as random access memory in early computers. I think the Jargon file has an anecdote about the first programmer who optimized his code to the spin rate of the drum so that the next instruction would be read just-in-time, without delay (a whole revolution of the drum, which was a considerable amount of time then). On the Commodore 64 Datasette many confuse the sound produced through the sound chip when loading some programs using a tape turbo (data compression program to reduce the time to load the main program), which some commercial game compilations used. Other home computer casette units may have produced sound, but on the Commodore 64 it was purely an annoying cosmetic touch by the programmer of the turbo loader (together with a flashing and/or striped screen). The reason for the flashing screen was purely practical though, as most commercial tapes were recorded at such a low level (to make it difficult to just dub the tape to thwart piracy) that you had to adjust the datasette read head with a screw driver to be able to load the damn game; if the screen stopped flashing while loading you knew you had to adjust the head and try again.

Wm Franklin

Other forms of storage which could be added: The 12" floppy disk - 1Mb, hard-shell case, used on late-60s, early 70 IBM machines, among them System 360, Model 44 DECtape - used in a number of DEC (Digital Equipment Corp. machines in the PDP series. This was a 1" reel, about 3-4" in diamter, held 350 Kb (if I remember correctly), and could be read/written in either direction. Its main claim to fame was that you could unspool some tape, wad it up in your hand, straighten it out (leaving folds & wrinkles), respool it, and read it without errors. Sort of like a tape-era USB key. The IBM 2311 (7 platter) & 2314 (14 platter) removable disk pack with completely unshielded platters, about 14" in diameter. Used in IBM System/360 and /370 mainframes as primary storage.

Cambronze

A couple of interesting thoughts partially relating to memory and older computer systems. DO NOT RUN with a box of punch cards. If I was in a hurry to get my time on the computer, I always ended up tripping and spilling the lot. They then needed to be reordered and my slot was lost. Sound from a C64 only when listening on an ordinary cassette player OR when correctly set, typed and spaced a friend had silent night on a dot matrix printer. I still have Microsoft Pascal Compiler manual and disks in original plastic box. My first introduction to Basic programing was on the states first mainframe, accidentally created an infinite loop. Put it out of commission for about an hour, while we tried to remove it. Never saw bureaucrats move so fast!

blmartech

actually on some systems it would play out loud when loading a cassette, most systems used the output of the cassette player which disabled the internal speaker, i had a ti/99 that would play the

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cassette's while loading them.

Zenith

That was a blast from the past, I enjoyed the read and browse through the images.

Wm Franklin

Great information, but one error, and one omission: The first floppy disk was the IBM 2315, which was 12" across, in a hard plastic case, and held 1 Mb. It was the main disk drive on the IBM 360, Model 44, which I programmed in college. You omitted the DECtape, which was about 3" diameter, has a 2" spindle (center hole), and was 1" wide. The DECtape's claim to fame was it was almost error-proof. You could unroll a bunch of DECtape; wad, crinkle, & fold it up in your hand; and it could then be read and written without errors. The DECtape was used on Digital Equipment's PDP-series of mainframes and minicomputers (PDP-8,10,11 that I know of). But great post!

Bottlerocket

Way to make me feel old, guys. I actually used [i.e. programmed with] both punch cards and paper tape. It felt high tech at the time. We would write batch programs using IBC job control language, and then wait for the programs to run. It seemed high tech at the time, now it seems so old. I am very glad you are keeping a historical record of computing.

Jacob

i got what i actually wanted from this website thank you

Perri Kenneth

I started selling the 8" and 10" SMD Drives. Remember CDC,Fujitsu. Emulex corp was one of the first to create the 3rd party disk market selling up against Dec. We made emulation controllers that put third party disk and tape products on the manufacturers cpu. This was back in the early eighties. EMC and Netapp were not even a dream yet. EMC made 4 meg add on memory cards. They could not even spell storage. The days of the big iron wars. We were selling the stuff for about $300.00 per meg.

Robert

Re: EDIT: Removed the comment about the Commodore Datassette sound, since it was a factual error: Removed this: (For those who werent there, you could hear the sound of the data being

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read as a high-pitched, screechy sound while you were loading your programs.) This is actually technically correct, at least for a short period of time... Before the Commodore branded tape drive came out, they sold an adapter for use with an ordinary cassette tape recorder. It was a wire that plugged into the Vic20 or C64 motherboard and then into the mic input of the recorder. You then pushed play and record to start the tape drive and then ran the "save" command. It was a REAL pain because you had to get the record volume just right. While it was recording you could hear the squeals and hisses. The dedicated tape drive was really an improvement-- especially because of the counter. With that you could put more than one program on a cassette tape. Yes.. I had both, the cable and the Commodore branded tape drive. That was a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

paresh

intresting improvement in technology.

Ecco

Regarding the tape sound - You had the correct phenomenon, but the wrong computer. The secondhand Atari 800 I had as a kid used to be noisy as hell when you would load or save a tape (CLOAD or CSAVE), though it sounded more like a robotic truck horn with a chest cold.

brian

interesting trip down memory lane. I have 3 old lugable computers sitting in my garage collecting dust. combined they have about the storage space of my iphone

TerryGM

I remember the cassette tape drive of my first computer, Radio Shack's TRS-80 Model 1 Level 2. It's hard to believe how many cassettes I used up learning that system. Later on I got a TRS-80 Model III with a 5.25" floppy disk. Of course as soon as I could I created flippies for it, to save money and double my space. The orginal was only 180KB, by making another eye hole in the floppy I could have another side to the disk. Later years I went to a school that still had some of the Model IIIs in use. One had an external hard drive, about the size of three laptops stacked on top of each other. It held a whole 5MB of data. It ammazed me at the time.

Charlie B

I remember seeing a product that would print programs on a laser printer that could be read by a hand-held plug-in device. The output looked similar to the optical data storage area on the back of some states drivers licenses. I don't remember what it was called but I actually did spring for one. Programs could be entered in a blazing three to five minutes instead of hours! This made getting programs for those Apple ][ computers much easier as we used to type in whole programs in

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BASIC right from sources such as Nibble Magazine. (http://www.nibblemagazine.net/) It was not uncommon (among nerds at least) to spend several days keying in a multi-page program that looked cool. The rest of the world just wondered what we were doing.

Janet Carroll

There were also so mini punch cards in the mid-1970s that were 2"-3" square. They didn't last long as the floppy came in about the same time.

Piyush Bakshi

That's a nice piece, back in 87' when I took computer classes to learn BASIC (I was in seventh grade), we were required to get a 3.5" floppy disc. I got one too though never used it and I still have it. It's an antique, Wonder what I'll get for it on eBay. :)

Chris

Hi. The relay on the Electron and BBC Microcomputers was to control the cassette motor, so that it stopped after loading or saving. It may also have controlled the volume, but only with specially-adapted cassette recorders. Hearing the data was essential! I remember getting my first 5.25" floppy drive, single-sided, 40K. It cost about 100. I also remember using the cassette relay to switch my amateur radio transceiver between transmit and receive. We used to send programs to each other by radio. Magic days!

Ivano Gutz

May I contribute with a missing landmark in the history of magnetic tape data storage? Its the DC100 Data Cartridge, a 3.5" digital data and program mass storage unit developed to fit into thee HP9825 desk computer, launched in 1976 with a 16-bit "triple core" hybrid microprocessor fantastic for numerical processing, interfacing and automation and years ahead of the 8-bit microcomputers from APPLE and IBM PC with 5.25" floppy disk drives. The quarter-inch-wide tape minicartridge (QIC) & drive is much smaller than the 8" floppy disk & drive from the 70ties (3.5" floppies appeared in 1981) and much faster and reliable than analog storage on cassete tape. The QIC originated an entire tape-backup industry and evolved to capacities of up to 20-Gbyte. QIC-backup dominated the scene till surpassed in capacity and speed by the hard disks in the 21st century. More about: http://www.hp9825.com/html/dc100_tape.html http://www.hp9825.com/html/hybrid_microprocessor.html http://www.answers.com/topic /minicartridge Application examples of the HP 9825 (with the DC 100) from our lab: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022072899001618 and http://www.teses.usp.br /teses/disponiveis/livredocencia/46/tde-29022008-142848.

Rodney

I still have some "floppy" floppy disks (5.25 inch) & a 40 Meg disk that occupies twice the space

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of a modern hard disk. State of the art technology, that was!

Al Weiss

Any way to send you a comment including photos? Al Weiss IBM 1959-1973

Andreas F. Geissbuehler

Many devices used SHIFT REGISTERS as a storage media. For example, the early display terminals ("CRTs") were in fact teletype terminals, operating at blazing speeds of 1200..9600 Bauds, connected to COM1 of mini-omputers and early PCs [*]. The display area typically had 24(/25) lines, 80 chars/line, for a total of 1960..2000+ characters (25th line: status data) which needed to be stored somehow. A shift register is like a bench, a row of chairs. Put many of these around a clock until the end of the last bench touches the begin of the first one. You now have a circle, a ring with thousands of chairs arranged around that clock. The way it works, on every chair sits either a "0" or a "1". Each time the clock ticks they all stand up, make one step to the right and sit down again. The last one on every bench now sits in first place of the next bench and... The electron beam, as it is redrawing the display advances to the same clock beat. After every 7th tick it gets to see who sits on "Bench No.1" and displays the graphic that corresponds to the 7 bits sitting on this bench at that instant. Say new data arrives, bit by bit it is entering the circle at some "Bench Nr.77". As new bits enter bench-77 the ones leaving bench-76 are lost as they step on a trap door and fall into the bit bucket. [*] The alternative was memory mapped video, a portion of the PC's RAM used as video buffer and a graphics card (CGA = IBM/PC Color Graphics Adapter), converting the RAM content into RGB video signals, sent a video monitor (a fast TV without tuner/receiver circuitry).

ray

David: Looks like a control panel from some Unit Record device. Similar to those for the 402/408, but probably a one-off machine. Wired a lot of machine in early 60's. BTW: If you tuned a radio between stations and set it on top of an IBM tape drive, you could create music on it by the data you sent to the tape. Knew a chape who spent months to make it play Mary Had A Little Lamb.

Rusty

My dad just turned 70 last week and when my roommate showed him her iPhone he was amazed (he's not real techie) It got him talking about hen he was in the Air Force back in the 50s and early 60s they had whole BUILDINGS for just one computer that couldn't do what a pocket calculator can do. I worked in a hotel several years ago that had a mainframe computer that took the 8 inch disks that had a whopping 76K on them and used tapes to run the back-ups. Seeing the pix of those "floppies" brought back a lot of memories. Great article

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jimfbailey I worked on an IBM air defense computer system starting in '61. 56,000 vacuum tubes, 2500 miles of wire, 1 million semiconductor diodes. We used punched cards, magnetic tape, magnetic drum memory, and the system had 65,536 words of 32-bit core memory. I have been in the computer industry since then and have lots of great memories of the changes in technology over the years.

jon

I recall a description of a system that used a video camera pointed at an oscilloscope to store 32 bits altogether.

eloy

i remember using tapes on my msx to play games. the sound was there, it made me know that the process was working. Found!

Tom Cagan

Back in the mid to late 1960s, I worked on the Litton DIANE system on the Grumman A-6A Intruder. Our support bench was called a SASE, and was driven by a paper tape/aluminized mylar tape system. When we had a correction to the program, we got a slip of tape from Litton, and cut and "patched" the correction into the tape. Today we are still "patching" our systems. Also in the DIANE system, there was a drum memory. It sat between the B/N's (Bombardier/Navigator)legs. If I recall, it was 144 tracks, and we had to do two fetches of 4 bits, to make a one 8 bit, byte. We didn't even have ICs then, a gate was built "chord wood" style and was one inch square on each end, and about one and a half inches long.

Another Keith

Hey Keith! I came to the comments to make the exact same comment about mercury delay lines being my favorite...and I'm named Keith too. :)

Eric Sobocinski

Here's another person who remembers that the old Atari 410 cassette recorder for Atari 400 and 800 computers did play the amazing screech erroneously attributed to the Commodore. I'm fairly confident that the only reason the screech existed was because you'd surely think the system had hung if you didn't hear something. At an effective read/write rate of about 35 bytes per second (600 baud with long inter-record gaps), reading or writing a file took forever. http://www.atariarchives.org/dere/chaptC.php for substantiation.

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mel sage The Atari cassette recorder was stereo, one track was intended for audio and fed to the TV speaker, the other was for data. Most commercial games were recorded in mono, or used the audio track for anti tape-to-tape copy protection exploiting head alignment errors, and I seem to recall that the Atari itself recorded data over both tracks.

The chip that decoded the tones to data had no reset pin, and the OS used it in whatever state it powered up in, so data transfer wasn't as reliable as it should have been. It was possible to reset the chip by manipulating some of its registers, I wrote a program that did that and could load data at much higher speed, although I could never get the Atari to reliably save above 1407 baud, other than by manipulating tape speed.

fard muhammad

I love the fact that the HAL 9000, with its ability to recognize the movement of lips and human drawings, was running off of punch cards. For those of you who don't believe me, see "2001" and fast forward to the point where HAL detects the fault in the AE-35 unit. Dave will ask for a hard copy of the report, and HAL prints out an actual punch card.

tripacer

What about the Kado (not sure of the spelling) I rember my Dad running one in the Early 80s' it had a 8" floppy disk. He used to brag that he could run his entire business on 2 floppy disks!

dave

Also - plated wire store (faster than core) - magnetorestrictive store (a delay-line technology)

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April 8, 2008 at 11:30 pm [...] Royal Pingdom The history of computer data storage, in pictures (tags: hardware history) [...] 10. links for 2008-04-09 Mandarine says: April 8, 2008 at 11:42 pm [...] disc, magnetic tape. (tags: hardware history images storage) No Comments Leave a Commenttrackback addressThere was an error with your comment, please try again. name (required)email (will not be published)(required)url [...] 11. Dantes os megabytes guardavam-se em latas de atum velhas - 2.0 WEBMANIA Portugal, a Web 2.0, o Mundo e a Internet says: April 9, 2008 at 1:01 am [...] O post d pelo nome de The history of computer data storage, in pictures e vale a pena a visita nem que seja para se rir um pouco. [...] 12. Giamas Weblog says: April 9, 2008 at 3:25 am [...] [via gizmodo via royal pingdom] [...] 13. Long Views Blog Archive History of computer memory in pictures says: April 9, 2008 at 6:08 am [...] [...] 14. Photographic history of computer memory KuiperCliff says: April 9, 2008 at 6:47 am [...] Photographic history of computer memory Posted on 9 April 2008 by kuipercliff Royal Pingdom has a great post laying out the history of data storage in photographs. The comments are well worth reading too. Ah, the sound of a ZX Spectrum loading [...] 15. Papa Mikes Blog Blog Archive Computer Data Storage says: April 9, 2008 at 8:26 am [...] Pictured above is the IBM Model 350, the first-ever hard disk drive. Here is a look back at some interesting storage devices from the early computer era. [link] [...] 16. Geschichte der Datentrger - I am Jeriko says: April 9, 2008 at 11:50 am [...] Die Geschichte der Datentrger hat mich jetzt eigentlich gar nicht so wahnsinnig interessiert, da grtenteils bekannt, aber dann kam zum Schluss noch dieses Bild, und zack! die Erinnerung war sofort wieder da. [...] 17. In need of a Base Case Blog Archive History of Computing in Pictures says: April 9, 2008 at 5:07 pm

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[...] Theres an interesting article here: http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=274 that shows the History of Computers with pictures. [...] 18. Vocescuola - La storia delle memorie di massa per immagini says: April 9, 2008 at 5:31 pm [...] Non passato poi cos tanto tempo 20/25 anni eppure ricordo ancora quando feci cadere le oltre 200 schede forate di un programma in cobol scritto da mia sorella le urla Su Pingdom un bel salto nel passato con una collezione di immagini storiche. 25 anni fa pensare a memorie da 4 GB piccole come un dito da portare in tasca era pura fantascienza, se non ricordo male la stessa quantit di memoria era contenuta in un volume grande come una scatola da scarpe, in qualche scatolone devo aver conservato ancora un hard disk winchester. [...] 19. the tweney review Blog Archive Links for April 8th through April 9th says: April 9, 2008 at 7:30 pm [...] Royal Pingdom The history of computer data storage, in pictures very nice pictorial history of early data storage tech [...] 20. Daily-Weekly Finds #11 - datapoohbah.com says: April 9, 2008 at 11:57 pm [...] History of Computer Storage in pictures. Punched tape is the shit, it lasts forever, unlike those crappy CDRW CDs with a 5 year shelf life. WTF? [...] 21. La storia delle memorie di massa con le immagini | FDS says: April 10, 2008 at 2:37 am [...] A questo link, potrete trovare una ricostruzione dellepopea delle memorie di massa, dagli albori della tecnologia fino agli anni 90. [...] 22. Bytes contra el tiempo A que la chingada says: April 10, 2008 at 3:49 pm [...] Aca encuentras mas detallada la historia de los sitemas de alamacenamiento de datos, desde los tubos al vacio y las tarjetas perforadas http://royal.pingdom.com /?p=274 [...] 23. its about time Blog Archive links for 2008-04-11 says: April 10, 2008 at 7:50 pm [...] Royal Pingdom The history of computer data storage, in pictures Here is a look back at some interesting storage devices from the early computer era. (tags: history technology coll hardware harddrive) [...] 24. de The history of computer data storage, in pictures says: April 10, 2008 at 8:03 pm [...] Royal Pingdom The history of computer data storage, in pictures [...] 25. The history of computer data storage, in pictures | Geekend | TechRepublic.com says:

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34. History of memory Mr Wevers Blog says: April 16, 2008 at 10:03 pm [...] From Royal Pingdom, via Gizmodo. [...] 35. history of computer data storage Guy Doyen Weblog says: April 20, 2008 at 2:35 pm [...] http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=274 [...] 36. links for 2008-04-22 D e j a m e S e r says: April 22, 2008 at 10:36 am [...] Royal Pingdom The history of computer data storage, in pictures (tags: computerscience history) [...] 37. history of data storage Arkivets Weblog says: May 11, 2008 at 8:45 am [...] of data storage Posted in Uncategorized by arkivarien on May 11th, 2008 Royal Pingdom The history of computer data storage, in pictures [...] 38. Charlie - Cmo era antes el almacenamiento de datos says: May 24, 2008 at 9:42 am [...] he encontrado con esta recopilacin de los distintos aparatos que se usaban para almacenar datos. Antes el primer disco duro que tuvo un gigabyte de capacidad era como un [...] 39. Data storage | Keep yourself safe from hackers and viruses. Stop letting people spy on your files. says: May 26, 2008 at 7:39 am [...] document.write(); Siddiques Blog Blog Archive Dont Toss Those Flopp.. Royal Pingdom The history of computer data storage, in pictures Cloud Computing-the new business model! The Inquiring Mind Data Storage History | Adams [...] 40. The past, present and future of data storage Rahim Karims Blog says: June 5, 2008 at 8:31 pm [...] Royal Pingdoms blogs The History of Computer Data Storage , is an interesting article that has great historical pictures of data storage though he should not [...] 41. h t t p : / / m a l i s o n . o r g says: June 14, 2008 at 11:18 am Und da war da noch Cluster im Eigenbau mit FreeBSD auf mini-itx BoardsWo die 100 erfolgreichsten Blogger lebenHistory of Computer Storageman baby

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Posted in Main on November 30th, 2012 by Pingdom

Today is the 6th annual Blue Beanie Day and we join web fans from around the world in wearing blue hats. We first thought that we will all look like Smurfs in the Pingdom HQ today, but Smurfs (at least most of them) have white hats, not blue. We at Pingdom want to make the web faster and more reliable, and working with web standards can certainly be a key part of accomplishing this. Pingdom wants to be a good web citizens and make sure our sites work and display correctly for as many users as possible.

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Posted in Main, Video on November 27th, 2012 by Pingdom

We always strive to make our products as easy as possible for our customers to use. That even includes such seemingly mundane things like input of credit card details. For a short while now weve been testing new input functionality and design for credit card payments. One of the new features is that when the customer types in the credit card number, it will automatically switch to the correct type of card. Check out this video for a bit of the background and a quick demo of what the new design looks like. Read more 7 Comments

Posted in Main on November 23rd, 2012 by Pingdom

This is our collection of must-read articles about web performance and ops for the weekend. Theres something about SPDY, Flickr, monitoring, performance tricks, and more. Every week we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, web performance, webops, security, and other geeky topics. Read more

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Posted in Main on November 21st, 2012 by Pingdom

We are committed to making the web faster and more reliable, and we really enjoyed attending the W3C web performance workshop a couple of weeks ago, together with representatives from Akamai, Google, Microsoft, and many others. This was a day packed with information, often very detailed and technical, about all different kinds of aspects of web performance. There is an official summary of the workshop, including links to the presentations, but we felt we should give you some of the highlights. Read more 1 Comment

Posted in Main, Video on November 19th, 2012 by Pingdom

The web is getting more complex by the day. Visitors to your websites want to put things in a shopping cart, create accounts and log in, fill in forms, and more. Most of these important activities require a complex sequence of pages and scripts, working together to accomplish the desired outcome. This means that not only do you want to make sure your website is up, you also want to make sure that important website functionality is working. Today, were announcing a beta program for a new tool were developing, which will help you tackle some of this increasing complexity. With the Pingdom Transaction Monitor, we want to enable you, our customers, to monitor such transactions to see that they are doing what they should.

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