​Computer Science - Data Storage

​Computer Science - Data Storage
Modern computing is built on the ability to store enormous amounts of data and programmes for future use, making it difficult to fathom what the earliest computers looked like. Programs and data were frequently typed by hand, incorporated directly into the device, or recorded as a series of holes punched in paper cards or tape in the decades before massive, high-quality internal data storage devices were the norm. For a very long period, these restrictions kept programmes small and straightforward. The first commercial data storage devices of the early 1950s could have easily stored a small modern smartphone app (or even simply a picture taken with one), but doing so would have cost thousands of dollars per month in today's currency. Files are often used to organise data. Even though these are frequently assembled from numerous separate files, every image, song, video, and piece of writing typically has its own file. Programs can consist of just one file, but the majority of contemporary apps include multiple files, in which case the programming instructs the computer on how to assemble all the components.