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<br> === History === | === History === | ||
In technical sense, digital storage started out as punch-hole cards or strips that were fed into a computer. Then with the Eniac, the first purely electronic computer storage was available. These first ones were like RAM memory on a average computer, in that when you turned off the power, the data was lost. It was not until the mid 1950s that memory was invented that did not need a constant power sorce. | In technical sense, digital storage started out as punch-hole cards or strips that were fed into a computer. Then with the Eniac, the first purely electronic computer storage was available. These first ones were like RAM memory on a average computer, in that when you turned off the power, the data was lost. It was not until the mid 1950s that memory was invented that did not need a constant power sorce. | ||
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Protecting information will help preserve family history for future generations. | Protecting information will help preserve family history for future generations. | ||
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