[Year 12 IT Apps] SSD replaces HDD for the Big Players

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Or the Loci or knotted string ... an early binary record keeping system
perhaps.
     http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/46/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=3206

Regards Roland

On 16 July 2012 09:58, Laurie Savage <savage.john.l at edumail.vic.gov.au>wrote:

>  The Abacus, you forgot the Abacus! And when we used notched sticks!****
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> Puts me in mind of the old Dilbert cartoon: “when I was young we didn’t
> have 1’s or 0’s. We had to make do with o’s.”****
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> Laurie Savage****
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> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Mark KELLY
> *Sent:* Thursday, 12 July 2012 3:27 PM
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 Software
> Development Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Year 12 IT Apps] SSD replaces HDD for the Big Players****
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> High Data Rollers like Google and Dropbox are adopting the SSD in data
> centres...
>
> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/flash-data-centers/
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> But will Flash SSD drives be here for long?  Maybe the memristor drive
> will take over in 2 years...
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> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/hp-memristors/
>
> Golly. I still have a 5.25" floppy drive lying around - just in case...
> it's a shame I don't have a compatible ISA slot to plug it in to any more
> :-(
>
> Greybeards - you may now begin your discussion...
> - I remember when I used audio cassettes to store programs on my TRS-80...
> - Pshaw, newbie!  I had a punched card reader connected to my Altair 8080!
> - Begone, neophyte. When Alan Turing and I were replacing rotors in our
> Bombe...
> - I remember the goode olde days when Herman Hollerith and I were playing
> Angry Sparrows on his hand loom and we...
>
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> Mark Kelly
> Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area
> McKinnon Secondary College
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Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Keysborough Secondary College

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change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
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