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

[Laurie Savage]

Where's the "Like" button on this darn list!?

 

From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Monday, 16 July 2012 10:23 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] SSD replaces HDD for the Big Players

 

Or the Loci or knotted string ... an early binary record keeping system
perhaps.

     http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/46/?pa=content
<http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/46/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=3206>
&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!

 

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."

 

Laurie Savage

 

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

 

High Data Rollers like Google and Dropbox are adopting the SSD in data
centres...

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/flash-data-centers/

But will Flash SSD drives be here for long?  Maybe the memristor drive will
take over in 2 years...

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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