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http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm Herman Hollerith developed a way for machines to store data with cards that have holes in them. He later created the company IBM.
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http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/selectron.htm The Selectron Tube, was the first storage device of storing 256 bits of data. The Selectron Tube was developed by Jan Rajchman.
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http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/willtube.htm The cathode-ray-tube (CRT) is a data storage device for early computers. This method of storage was able to store 512 bits and 1024 bits of storage.
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http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm Before the use of disks, they use Drum Memory-Computers. It used magnetic drums in order to store data.
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http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/08/the-history-of-computer-data-storage-in-pictures/ The magnetic tape was first used as a storage device. But later on became a way to transfer data. It was able to transfer 7,200 characters a second. They were also 1200 feet long (and were all metal) which made it very heavy.
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http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/r/ramac.htm The first computer to be shipped with a hard drive. It contained fifty 24-inch platters. It was also capable of storing 5 million ASCII characters.
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http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm Chucking Grinder Co, because working on the disk drives.
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http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm IBM introduces the 1301 storage device. This device was capable of storing 28 million ASCII characters.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/audiowaxrecordstomp3/a/Cassette_Tape.htm The cassette was first made in 1962. By a well known company called Phillips. It had the speed of 1.7/8 inches per second.
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http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=302 An early build of what we know RAM. Which is random access memory.
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http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/08/the-history-of-computer-data-storage-in-pictures/ The floppy disk was first used in the mid-1970's to the 1990's. They all came in different sizes every decade.
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http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/wincdisk.htm IBM ships out the 3340 which contained two spindles. With the ability to hold 30MB of data. This was also the first hard-drive to ulitilze the Winchester technology.
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http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/08/the-history-of-computer-data-storage-in-pictures/ The laserdisc is a precursor the the CD. It was first available in 1978.
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http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm Seagate introduced the ST506. This was the first hard-drive for microcomputers.
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http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm SCSI-1 was developed.
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http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=293 The CompactFlash used flash memory. They are more robust than hard-drives that we know today besides Solid-State-Drives.
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http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=292 A copy of the floppy disk but the capability to hold more data.
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http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm SCSI-2 was approved.
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http://www.computerhope.com/history/hdd.htm SCSI-3 was approved.
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http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=287 The memory stick is close the USB flash drive we know today. This was a small card that was able to hold usually 256MBs.
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http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=374 A flash memory card. Most phones have slots to a variant of this called micro SD Cards.
