Photographic Data Storage For Computers (Jan, 1948)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jan, 1948
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jan, 1948
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This is a pretty crazy way to store data.
Camera Snaps Answers
To speed recording answers in computing machines, Kodak has made a new camera that snaps 1,000 12-digit numbers a second. The numbers are photographed from a cathode-ray tube as spots; retranslated into electrical impulses by photoelectric tubes as desired for feeding back into the computer. Mosaic above is film section enlarged 25 times. A 100-foot strip holds 3,000,000 digits.
Wow! Kodak would have been a leader in digital photography if they would have kept refining this. It’s especially mind-boggling since this was, after all 1948!
Comment by Al Bear — May 23, 2008 @ 1:07 pm