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Manufacturer : Remington Rand
Model : UNISERVO
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Manufacturer : IBM
Model : 726
7-track tape that could store every 6-bit byte plus a parity bit Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_drive -
Invented in 1958
An optical disc (OD) is a flat, usually circular disc which encodes binary data in the form of pits and lands on a special material on one of its flat surfaces. Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc -
Introduced by IBM Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive
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In 1961 and 1969, David Paul Gregg registered a patent for the analog optical disc for video recording. This form of optical disc was a very early form of the DVD U.S. Patent 3,430,966
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Developed in the late 1960s
Were 8 inches (200 mm) in diameter
They became commercially available in 1971. Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk -
Manufacturer : IBM
Model : 729
Capacity : 20MB
Linear serpentine recording Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_drive -
A new type of HDD introduced by IBM
Its primary distinguishing feature was that the disk heads were not withdrawn completely from the stack of disk platters when the drive was powered down.
Later "Winchester" drives abandoned the removable media concept and returned to non-removable platters. Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive -
Manufacturer : IBM
Model : 3850
First tape library with robotic access Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_drive -
Shugart Associates introduced the first 5 1⁄4-inch FDD. Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
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In 1979, Philips and Sony, in consortium, successfully developed the audio compact disc. source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc
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Manufacturer : Cipher
Model : F880 Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_drive -
Was invented by Dr. Fujio Masuoka while working for Toshiba. Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
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External HDDs remained popular for much longer on the Apple Macintosh.
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Manufacturer : Exabyte/Sony
Model : EXB-8200
Capacity : 2.4GB
Elimination of the capstan and pinch-roller system Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_drive -
By 1988 the 3 1⁄2-inch was outselling the 5 1⁄4-inch.
By the mid-1990s, the 5 1⁄4-inch drives had virtually disappeared as the 3 1⁄2-inch disk became the predominant floppy disk. -
A medium-capacity removable disk storage system that was introduced by Lomega.
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In the mid-1990s, a consortium of manufacturers developed the second generation of the optical disc, the DVD. Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc
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Manufacturer : IBM
Model : VTS Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_drive -
The third generation optical disc was developed in 2000–2006, and was introduced as Blu-ray Disc. First movies on Blu-ray Discs were released in June 2006. Blu-ray eventually prevailed in a high definition optical disc format war over a competing format, the HD DVD. A standard Blu-ray disc can hold about 25 GB of data, a DVD about 4.7 GB, and a CD about 700 MB. Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc
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Manufacturer : StorageTek
Model : T10000
Encryption capability integrated into the drive Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_drive -
Manufacturer : IBM
Model : TS2250 LTO Gen5
Allows accessing files on tape in the same way as on a disk filesystem Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_drive
