Emergence & Evolution of Storage

MediaText Book, Magnetic Tape, Floppy

Disc , CD ROM,DVD

Presented by
PRITIJA GHOSH

Types of Storage
1.Hard System
2.Soft System

Ancient Storage
System

Hard Storage System

TEXT BOOK
Started in Greece
Used only by Teachers in Ancient times
In 1450s Johannes Gutenberg first started
printing by printing GREEK NEW
TESTAMENT.
By 16th century printed books were widely
accessible & less costly
21st century students use PDF books, online
tutorial system & video lectures.

Soft Storage System

MAGNETIC TAPE
Invented in Germany in 1928.
Magnetizable coating on a long, narrow
strip of plastic film
Used as tape recording & video tape
recording
Made of an oxide of iron & chromium.
Sony , IBM, Fujifilm continue to
produce new magnetic tape drives.

FLOPPY DISC
Read & written by a Floppy Disk
Drive (FDD)
In 1960s it was 8-inch,later 5.5-inch,
mid 1990 3.5-inch.
Another names, floppy , diskette or
disk.
Earlier 80 KB,1990s 1.44 MB
Susceptible to dust, moisture & age.

CD ROM
Compact Disc Read Only Memory.
Popularly used from mid-1990s till date.
Introduced at a Japanese computer show in
1984.
Developed by Sony & Denon.
Had capacity of 540 M B, now has 650 M B.
Made from a 1.2 mm thick disc of
Polycarbonate plastic , with aluminum.
Common size is 120 mm diameter , mini
CD is 80 mm.

DVD
Digital Versatile/Video Disc.
Invented & co-developed by Sony ,
Philips , Toshiba &Panasonic in 1995.
Used to hold High Definition material
like Video & Audio.
Has the capacity of 4.7 G B (120min)
Standard DVD is 12 cm, Mini DVD is 8
cm.

To myself I am only a
child playing on the
beach, while vast oceans
of truth lie undiscovered
before me
- Sir Isaac Newton