http://www.computeradvicesite.com/3200/how-was-the-first-computers-hard-drive-made-without-a-computer-to-write-the-data-to-it/ Questions And Answers by Real Computer Users Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:39:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.computeradvicesite.com/3200/how-was-the-first-computers-hard-drive-made-without-a-computer-to-write-the-data-to-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6643 quinth2k Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:25:25 +0000 http://www.computeradvicesite.com/3200/how-was-the-first-computers-hard-drive-made-without-a-computer-to-write-the-data-to-it/#comment-6643 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. 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.

]]> http://www.computeradvicesite.com/3200/how-was-the-first-computers-hard-drive-made-without-a-computer-to-write-the-data-to-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6642 David Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:53:37 +0000 http://www.computeradvicesite.com/3200/how-was-the-first-computers-hard-drive-made-without-a-computer-to-write-the-data-to-it/#comment-6642 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… 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…

]]> http://www.computeradvicesite.com/3200/how-was-the-first-computers-hard-drive-made-without-a-computer-to-write-the-data-to-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6641 owsley's kid Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:22:43 +0000 http://www.computeradvicesite.com/3200/how-was-the-first-computers-hard-drive-made-without-a-computer-to-write-the-data-to-it/#comment-6641 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. 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.

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