Magnetic tape and disks were developed in the 1950s and commonly used together in companies for ... (CD-R, DVD-R) became popular for personal computer backup, but they all gave way to USB ...

Magneto-optic (MO) disks combine optical and magnetic technologies (see magneto-optic disk). See ISO/IEC 13346 , multilevel optical disc , holographic storage , WORM and legality of optical storage .

Magnetic drums and punch cards were effectively antiquated over night, and software was almost exclusively released on 5 1/4-inch (and eventually 3 1/2-inch) floppy disks through until the turn of ...

It stored 21MB of data on a special 3.5-inch magnetic floppy disk (upper left). Unlike some alternative forms of storage, this promising format was backward-compatible with traditional 3.5-inch ...

It’s to the right of a pager and directly under a CD, perhaps giving more insight into the relevance of the object. It’s a floppy disk and it’s pretty much extinct at this point. Back in t ...

The ultimate speed of magnetic disk drives is at least 1,000 times slower than previously expected.. So claims a team led by physicist Joachim Stohr of Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center that ...