Timothy Sipples wrote: >- punch paper tape; I may have recently seen a paper tape (or linked card >deck?) player piano available for sale, new, as a novelty.
Another novelty: A doll (circa 1800) who can draw pre-programmed words, pictures, etc. and has 'largest cam-based memory of any automaton of the era' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillardet%27s_automaton Another URL: http://www.chonday.com/Videos/the-writer-automaton >- VHS tape as digital storage; What about the failed Betamax (?spelling?) tapes? Were there any attempts to used them for computer storage? >...but VHS tape as a computer data storage medium has disappeared, mostly >because it was never very good anyway. How so? Were there any documented attempts? Just curious if you don't mind. >- many, many types of film media, including practically all of early film >sound recording types; You forgot Microfiche? >- non-vinyl and 78 rpm phonographic records; Vinyl records are still with us >as a novelty. You can get devices to copy the sounds on vinyl records to DVD/CDs. >Stone (and other durable materials) engravings have not disappeared. ... It's >one of humanity's oldest storage types, probably the oldest. (Cave drawings >are old, too.) Bushman paintings are protected by law here in Sunny South Africa. >Paper also shows no signs of disappearing as a storage medium any time What about cellphones and tablets now being used as medium for storage? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
