From a Ton of Disks to a Fingernail
In short: The first commercial hard disk drive held about 3.75 megabytes in a cabinet that weighed over a ton with its compressor, and this film follows how the space information needs has shrunk since then.
A 2:06 short film in the series “Lost Futures”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Computer History Museum (The Storage Engine), “1956: First commercial hard disk drive shipped | The Storage Engine”; Computer History Museum, “Computer History Museum”; Toshiba (archived copy of the Toshiba 'Inventor of FLASH Memory 1987–2012' site, via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine), “Toshiba :: Inventor of FLASH Memory :: 1987 - 2012”; IEEE (IEEE Xplore author profile), “Fujio Masuoka - IEEE Xplore Author Profile”; Computer History Museum, “Memory & Storage | Timeline of Computer History | Computer History Museum”; Computer History Museum (The Storage Engine), “Timeline | The Storage Engine”; SD Association, “Capacity (SD/SDHC/SDXC/SDUC) - SD Association”; IBM Corporation (R. Fontana and G. Decad, IBM Systems and Technology Group), presented at a Library of Congress storage meeting hosted on digitalpreservation.gov, 2014, “Fontana_Volumetric%20Density%20Trends%20for%20Storage%20Components%20--%20LOC%2009222014.pdf”; IBM Corporation (IBM Almaden Research Center presentation by G. Decad, R. Fontana, S. Hetzler, 23 September 2013, hosted on the Library of Congress digitalpreservation.gov site), “GaryDecad_Technology.pdf”.
Sources used in this film
- Computer History Museum (The Storage Engine) — 1956: First commercial hard disk drive shipped | The Storage Engine · View →
- Computer History Museum — Computer History Museum · View →
- Toshiba (archived copy of the Toshiba 'Inventor of FLASH Memory 1987–2012' site, via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine) — Toshiba :: Inventor of FLASH Memory :: 1987 - 2012 · View →
- IEEE (IEEE Xplore author profile) — Fujio Masuoka - IEEE Xplore Author Profile · View →
- Computer History Museum — Memory & Storage | Timeline of Computer History | Computer History Museum · View →
- Computer History Museum (The Storage Engine) — Timeline | The Storage Engine · View →
- SD Association — Capacity (SD/SDHC/SDXC/SDUC) - SD Association · View →
- IBM Corporation (R. Fontana and G. Decad, IBM Systems and Technology Group), presented at a Library of Congress storage meeting hosted on digitalpreservation.gov, 2014 — Fontana_Volumetric%20Density%20Trends%20for%20Storage%20Components%20--%20LOC%2009222014.pdf · View →
- IBM Corporation (IBM Almaden Research Center presentation by G. Decad, R. Fontana, S. Hetzler, 23 September 2013, hosted on the Library of Congress digitalpreservation.gov site) — GaryDecad_Technology.pdf · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Computer History Museum (The Storage Engine): 1956: First commercial hard disk drive shipped | The Storage Engine
- Also: Computer History Museum: Computer History Museum
- Also: Toshiba (archived copy of the Toshiba 'Inventor of FLASH Memory 1987–2012' site, via the Internet Archive Wayback Machin: Toshiba :: Inventor of FLASH Memory :: 1987 - 2012
- Also: IEEE (IEEE Xplore author profile): Fujio Masuoka - IEEE Xplore Author Profile
- Also: Computer History Museum: Memory & Storage | Timeline of Computer History | Computer History Museum
- Also: Computer History Museum (The Storage Engine): Timeline | The Storage Engine
- Also: SD Association: Capacity (SD/SDHC/SDXC/SDUC) - SD Association
- Also: IBM Corporation (R. Fontana and G. Decad, IBM Systems and Technology Group), presented at a Library of Congress storage : Fontana_Volumetric%20Density%20Trends%20for%20Storage%20Components%20--%20LOC%2009222014.pdf
- Also: IBM Corporation (IBM Almaden Research Center presentation by G. Decad, R. Fontana, S. Hetzler, 23 September 2013, hosted: GaryDecad_Technology.pdf
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