History of Electronic File Storage

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  • Magnetic Tape allows for mass storage of information

    Magnetic tape allows for masss storage of information.

  • IBM 1301 Disk Storage Unit is released

  • IBM 1311 Disk Storage Drive announced

  • 8-inch floppy diskette invented as a program and data storage medium

  • 5 1/4 floppy disk introduced to use with desktop computer

  • First hard disk drive created for microcomputers

  • Sony introduced first 3 1/2 floppy disk drive and diskette

  • CD-Rom's intoduced and able to hold 550 megabytes of prerocrded data

  • Data today in stord in a hard drive in RAM

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