Data storage device
From PUBLIC DOMAIN PROJECT
A data storage device is a device for recording (storing) information (data). Recording can be done using virtually any form of energy, spanning from manual muscle power in handwriting, to acoustic vibrations in phonographic recording, to electromagnetic energy modulating magnetic tape and optical discs.
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Media types
Phonograph cylinders
Busy-Bee Records
Columbia Records
- Columbia cylinders (1890-?)
- Columbia concert cylinders
- Oxford indestructible cylinders (1908-1912)
Edison Bell
- Edison Bell cylinders (1890-1903)
Edison Records
- Brown wax cylinders (1895-1901)
- Edison wax Amberol cylinders (1908-1912)
- Edison Blue Amberol cylinders (1912-1929)
- Edison Concert cylinders (1898-1911)
- Cylindres Edison moulés sur or
- Edison Goldguss Walze
- Edison Gold-Moulded cylinders (1902-1912)
- Edison Grand Opera Amberol cylinders
- Edison Records in Chinese
Indestructible Records
- Oxford indestructible cylinders (1912-1922)
Lambert Records
- Lambert concert cylinders
- Lambert cylinders "Pink Lamberts" (until 1905)
Pathé Records
Sterling Records
- Sterling cylinders (1904-?)
