Today most of us walk around with hundreds of gigabytes of storage in our pockets and think nothing of it. In the not too distant past, to have a few megabytes of storage was considered a ton! For those of us who remember 5 1/4″ floppy disks, it would take 9,532 of them to store one megabyte of data! Listen to how we survived those days and how much things have changed in just a couple of decades.
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Show Notes
- The Jacquard Loom » bit.ly/2LKXs5m
- Evolution of Digital Storage » bit.ly/2bGPagc
- The Compact Cassette » bit.ly/2NEzQQB
- How Floppy Disks Work » bit.ly/2Lg2smGCassettes
- How many floppies equals one Gigabyte » tek.io/2LuQ6Gs
- History of Solid State Drives » bit.ly/2uLj1fK
- History of Cloud Computing » bit.ly/2IJEhY5
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