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The evolution of hard drives and Storage

The punch card A punch card was once the basis for digital information used for computer programs and data storage. They were widely used throughout the first half of the 20 th   century in processing machines to input data and to store it. Punch cards could be fed into the first commercial computer, IBM 305 system, which then stored the data on hard disks. IBM 350 disk storage unit The 350 Disk Storage System was a major component of the IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) system, which was introduced in September 1956. It consisted of 40 platters and a dual read/write head on a single arm that moved up and down the stack of magnetic disk platters. Those 40 platters stored a whopping (for the time) 5MB of data.

Microsoft Windows - Evolutions

Microsoft Started Operating System with DOS (Disk Operating System) and earlier versions of Windows were started with command line interface, we were needed to change the date, time and then EDIT program was used to make files in 1985 Microsoft Introduced Windows 1.0, to start windows from DOS win command was used, Microsoft Windows Logo also changed since 1985. Here is a family tree of windows