A Brief History of Data Storage
summary
Covers data storage from fired clay tablets (oldest customer complaint survives by chance) through punch‑card driven looms to modern cloud cold storage; claims IBM popularizes the 80-column punch card and core memory uses destructive reads, with software literally woven into core rope memory for Apollo. Notes magnetic limits (superparamagnetism countered by ruthenium spacers), a Paris bunker using shingled magnetic recording for denser cold archives, a Viking tape loss caused by lost encoding, and experimental DNA on the Moon as billion‑year archival potential.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction to data storage
- 3:37Ancient data storage
- 6:54Textiles and punch cards
- 11:13Analog photography history
- 14:12Vinyl and audio storage
- 16:11Early computing punch cards
- 18:24Drum memory
- 20:35Magnetic core memory
- 24:36Floppy disks
- 30:57Optical and tape storage
- 36:50Hard drives and density
- 41:05Advanced magnetic storage
- 46:42Flash memory mechanics
- 48:54DNA storage
- 51:52Future storage technologies
- 59:27Conclusion and Q&A
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