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Early Secondary Storage Devices

Early secondary storage devices included punched cards, punched paper tapes, Williams tube, magnetic tape, and magnetic drum memory. Magnetic tape began being used for computer storage in 1951 and cassette tapes from the 1980s could store around 660KB per side. Hard disk drives became widely used from the mid-1970s to late 1990s, with the first model in 1956 having a storage capacity of 5 million characters.

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Early Secondary Storage Devices

Early secondary storage devices included punched cards, punched paper tapes, Williams tube, magnetic tape, and magnetic drum memory. Magnetic tape began being used for computer storage in 1951 and cassette tapes from the 1980s could store around 660KB per side. Hard disk drives became widely used from the mid-1970s to late 1990s, with the first model in 1956 having a storage capacity of 5 million characters.

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SECONDARY STORAGE DEVICES

EARLY SECONDARY STORAGE DEVICES


ACS 101 BASIC COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE
GROUP 5

• Abigael Cheptoo
• Stephen Linus
• Mukuna Mwangangi
• Samuel Njihia
• Lynette Ochieng
PUNCHED CARDS AND PUNCHED PAPER
TAPES

• Invented in 1890 by American Statistician Herman Hollerith


• Used in punch card tabulation machines
• Converts programs and data into binary codes, the holes are 1 and non holes
are 0
• Input to the computer is through photoelectric scanning
WILLIAMS TUBE

• First known type of random access memory(RAM)


• Uses electrostatics cathode ray display tube
• Storage capacity ranged from 1024 to 2048 bits
MAGNETIC TAPE

• In 1928,Fritz Pfleumer(Germany eng) invented the magnetic tape


• It was an audiotape that could store analog signals
• In 1951 magnetic tape began to be used for computer storage
• In 1980 a small cassette tape appeared where a 90 minute tape could record
approximately 660KB of data on each side
MAGNETIC DRUM MEMORY

• Invented in 1932 by Gustav Tauschek(Australian eng)


• It could only store 10KB of data
• It’s advantages are practical, reliable and also economical
• Disadvantage is that storage capacity is too small and utilization rate is low

HARD DISK DRIVE

• First hard disk drive was a IBM Model 305 disk file
• It came with the IBM 305 RAMAC computers in 1956
• It had 50 24-inch disks with a total storage capacity of 5 million characters

widely used from mid 1970s to late 1990s
ad a capacity of 79.9KB in 1971
in capacity
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