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Hard Drive
The computer was nothing but a revolution since it could store up to 4.4MB of data an enormous amount of data back then. The data was stored on fifty 24 inch magnetical disks. More than 1000 systems were built and the production ended in 1961 -
The Laserdisc
But it wasn’t until 1972 that the first videodisc was demonstrated in public. 6 years later, in 1978, it was available on the market. It wasn’t possible to store data on the discs, but they could store video and image data with a significantly higher quality than tecnniques like VHS. -
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette was introduced by Philips in 1963 but it wasn’t until the 1970s it became popular. -
Floppy Disk
It was a read-only 8 inch disk that could store 80kB of data. 4 years later, in 1973, the a similar floppy disk with the same size could store 256kB of data plus it was possible to write new data again and again. -
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Portable USB
Are rather new to the world of data backup, but they have already become very popular. The smallest of these drives stores several times more data than a traditional 3,5 inch floppy disk, and larger ones can hold as much data as a CD-ROM or even more.