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<br> === History === | <br> === 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. | ||
In the early 60's, The Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day saints began using computers and digital storage to store and alphabetise millions of names. In 1986' the church released the first version of it's PAF program for PC's, making it possible for genealogists to make family trees and store them on magnetic 5 1/4 inch floppy discs. | |||
== Digitization == | == Digitization == | ||