How Was The First Computers Hard Drive Made Without A Computer To Write The Data To It?
Ok now i have been racking my brains trying to think of an answer to this
How is it possilbe to make a computer if the hard drive needs a computer to write the data to it?
im like really confused on this
anyone know the answeR?
Hard drives didn’t come along for about 40 years after computers were invented. Punch cards, paper punch tape and magnetic tape were all used as computer storage media before the hard drive was invented.
World’s oldest computer resurrected after 2,000 years
December 15th, 2008
It has no hard drive, no peripherals, and won’t run Windows Vista. But that doesn’t mean that the Antikythera Mechanism is anything less than incredible. The 2,000-year-old computer was discovered on an Ancient Greek shipwreck 100 years ago, and thanks to miracles of modern science (including X-ray and gamma radiographs used to probe its hidden mechanics), a working replica has been built. The mechanism predicts the positions and phases of heavenly bodies such as the sun, moon, and planets, and was used for navigation.http://www.sciencepunk.com/2008/12/world…
Ok here’s the deal, computer systems run on binary, right? So the first computers with hard drives had the information copied from floppy drives. Because all that data is in the form of binary which never changes, from punch cards, to floppy disk, to hard drive, data is stored in 1′s and 0′s. so it’s easy to copy from one medium to another.