Punch Cards to Laserdisc: History of Computer Storage in Pics

0atwong • 13th Apr 2008 • Conversation Pieces

Punch Cards to Laserdisc: History of Computer Storage in Pics
Over at Royal Pingdom there’s a fascinating little picture history of computer storage from the year dot nearly up to the present day. Who knew that hard disks were once the size of a small car? Not me, though I remember being surprised when finding an 8-inch floppy disk in an old science workstation once. And probably few now remember that Fortran’s strange columnar code structure came, in part, from punch card use. Check out the images in the gallery: some of them will amuse you, some may amaze.