As technology marches on at an unprecedented pace, many devices and standards have fallen by the wayside, replaced by faster, sleeker, and more efficient alternatives. Not all outdated ...

3M, or as it was officially called until 2002, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company is one of those odd-duck companies where if you ask what products they manufacture the answer is ...

There have been a lot of different mass storage methods over the relatively short lifespan of the computer. Magnetic ... memory device, it actually provided access to a flash disk drive ranging ...

An early magnetic card storage device from IBM. Used from the mid-1960s until the mid-1970s, the Data Cell was designed by Alan Shugart, who later engineered the hard disk and floppy disk.

An early non-volatile magnetic storage device. Developed by Bell Labs researcher Andrew Bobeck in the 1970s, bubble memory was about as fast as a slow hard disk but it held its content without power.

From the 1970s, programs were beginning to be loaded from floppy ... type of storage. Today, SSDs have largely replaced hard disk drives as the primary form of storage in many devices, including ...

Magnetic storage ... Be smaller - devices they are in can be smaller too. Use less battery power - devices they are in stay charged for longer. Be more robust - a magnetic disk could be ruined ...

Lenovo first introduced its range of Magic Bay devices last year ... which can provide extra storage or act as a backup disk without having to occupy one of the increasingly rare USB ports ...