What did early computers use for fast read/write storage? Surprisingly, drum memory–a similar technology to a modern hard drive–first appeared in 1932 for use with punched card machines.

His quest was to create a unique drum machine, inspired by a Soviet auto-dialer that used rope core memory for number storage. Rope memory is the read-only sibling to magnetic core memory ...

In contrast, other data storage media such as hard disks, CDs, DVDs and magnetic tape, as well as early primary memory types such as drum memory, read and write data only in a predetermined order ...

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