Activity #3

Choose any device and search the net on

how that device evolved from the time it
was first invented to its present form.
Submit your observations to your instructor
through e-mail.
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1928 Magnetic Tape (Fritz Pfleumer) 1932 Magnetic Drum(G. Taushek,

a German engineer, patented magnetic an Austrian innovator)
tape in 1928. He based his invention off invented the magnetic drum in
Vlademar Poulsen's magnetic wire. 1932. He based his invention off a
discovery credited to Fritz Pfleumer.
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1946 Williams Tube (Professor Fredrick C.
Williams) random access computer memory at
the University of Manchester. He used a series of
electrostatic cathode-ray tubes for digital storage.
A storage of 1024 bits of information was
successfully implemented in 1948.
1956 Hard disk A hard disk
implements rotating platters, which
stores and retrieves bits of digital
information from a flat magnetic
surface..
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1963 Music tape (Philips) introduced the
compact audio cassette in 1963. Philips originally
intended to use the audio cassette for dictation
machines. In 1979, Sony's Walkman helped
transformed the use of the audio cassette tape,
which became widely used and popular.
1971 8 Floppy (IBM) A floppy disk, a
portable storage device made of
magnetic film encased in plastic, made
it easier and faster to store data.
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1980 CD (James T. Russel)
thought of using light to record and replay
music. As a result, he invented the optical
digital television recording and playback
television 1980, Russel completed the project
and presented it to Sony.
• 1981 3.5 Floppy The 3.5-inch floppy disk
had significant advantages over its
predecessors. It had a rigid metal cover
that made it harder to damage the
magnetic film inside also used a optical
and magnetic technologies to store and
retrieve digital data..
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1990 MOD (The Magneto-Optical)This optical
disc format used a combination of optical and
magnetic technologies to store and retrieve
digital data. A special magneto-optical drive is
necessary to retrieve the data stored on these
3.5 to 5.25-inch discs.
1995 DVD became the next
generation of digital disc storage.
DVD, a bigger and faster alternative
to the compact disc, serves to store
multimedia data.
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CD-RW The Compact Disc Rewritable 1997 Multimedia Card (MMC) uses a
disc, a rewritable version of the CD- flash memory card standard to house
ROM, allows users to record digital digital data. It was introduced by
data over previous data. Siemen's and SanDisk in 1997.
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1999 Microdrive SD Card and Micro SD Card The Secure

A USB Flash Drive uses a NAND-type Digital (SD) flash memory format
flash memory to store digital data. A incorporates DRM encryption features that
USB Flash Drive plugs into the USP allow for faster file transfers.
interface on standard computers.
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Humankind has always tried to find ways to store
information. From Big to small and slow to fast we
always improve our technology in better ways. The
more we close to future the more the technology like
storage device innovates accessible and portable. As
time humanity continues to push the envelope of
innovation to create new possibilities.
 TRY ON YOUR OWN
Review the history of computers and make a timeline highlighting the
major discoveries and developments in computers

The major discoveries and development of computers are in between Electromechanical

and Electronic age. The mechanical age is more on basic part of computer but has also a
major role in discoveries and development but the true discoveries the close to
discovering computer are in electromechanical and electronic age also called the big
computers. In this age the power of mechanical and the electronic parts like transistor
combine to create big computer like John Atanasoff and the ABC Computer 1937 used of
vacuum tubes instead of mechanical switches also ENIAC, UNIVAC and EDVAC that used for
more complicated electronic and mechanical parts that can generate information faster but
heavier. I think these are the major discoveries can lead us to discover the modern
computer.
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In your opinion, is there an ethical violation in the use of artificial
intelligence?

There is a ethical violation in the use of artificial intelligence it can affect of

daily lives in different ways In terms of job opportunities, security and
human interaction. We usually aware about using AI because what we see
in media they can use in bad and good ambitions. While AI better our lives
it also threaten or existen.