Hard-Drive Technology (1984)

http://www.cchronicles.com/files/bc4556ff6e515a45aeeb8785be003a4a-14.html

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Floppy drives, hard drives, and bubble memory. Guests: Al Shugart, Seagate; Frank Sordello, Memorex; Gary Kildall, DRI Products/Demos: 5 ¼ inch floppy drive, 3 ½ inch floppy drive, RCA CED videodisk, 3680 1.2 GB spindle disk

Category:

Education

Tags:

• chronicles
• computer
• retro
• hardware
• chips
• microchip
• circuitboard
• storage
• memory

[68040E]

1.2 gig! in 1984...

[Xzeleous]

Memorex: From pioneering hard disk to making generic CD cases and CD-Rs

[mirabilis]

@2003SCT Me too. Got one inside my phone! (of all things) :D

[Bammer2001]

@kinmanyuen I assume that the filming was done in Silicon Valley, California, because that's where the most electronic innovation came from.

[kinmanyuen]

not to memtion optical recordables at the end! (cd)

[kinmanyuen]

they mention hdd and ssd in 1984!

[tkoizumi]

it's hard to imagine computers without hdd. whats even more fasinating is that game console has gone thru the same evolution. just this generation alone, without hdd in console is still a new concept. we will perhaps look back at our own SDD now when halographic storage device becomes the norm where near infinite storage capacity is possible with instant data read and write.

[4gasem]

WOW! I just bought a Mac Mini with two 500gb drives in it. It's 7 inches square and 1.25" tall. I love seeing from once we came... I'm old enough to remember NO hard drives...

[mikeluscher159]

@crocodile2006 i died, in a retro 80's fashion :)

[bnza10]

@confusioncaption 2010 for SSD

[2003SCT]

They would probably be pretty impressed with a simple and inexpensive 32 GB Micro SD card...32GB on something the size of your pinky nail impresses the hell out of me still.