11 Dec
2014
11 Dec
'14
12:19 p.m.
On Dec 11, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Rich Alderson <RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org>
wrote:
From: Tapley, Mark
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 8:26 AM
Right! And I suspect one might trace back even before that, if allowed to include
non-magnetic media. Delay lines?
But, I was thinking of technologies which are ?disruptive? as only those which are widely
adopted (which may be just my own prejudice). Not just everybody had copies of the wire
and metal-tape information storage devices, but a good fraction of the population, at
least of developed countries, had (plastic) audio tape drives and following. And these
days, all those walkmen, floppy and hard drives in laptops, etc. have pretty much been
supplanted by PDA?s with a volume of twitter garbage equal to the volume of the library of
congress.
Not saying we *use* our disruptive technologies in the wisest manner?
- Mark
Tape -> floppy -> hard drives were
evolutionary and the year-on-year
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...
Evolutionarily, that should be
wire => metal tape => plastic tape => metal disks => floppy disks
over more than three decades, right?
Rich