cba - Timeline

Flash Drive was invented, Dov Moran/M-Systems, it stores data and comes in many forms, it's typically used to transfer information, an 128-megabytes drive sold for about $30

The Memory Stick was invented, Amir Ban, Dov Moran and Oron Ogdan, used for storage media for portable device $100-$150

Storage Tape Introduced at World's fair in Paris by Valdemar Poulsen Stores digital information on magnetic tape using digital recording $99.99, making the price per GB $0.033

DVD invented and developed by Panasonic, Philips, Sony, and Toshiba Is a digital optical disc storage format and a compact disc able to store large amounts of data $25 DVD in 1995

CD Inventor is James Russell A digitally encoded recording on an optical disk $30 cost

Hard Drive Invented by IBM team led by Rey Johnson Storage device containing a read-write mechanism plus one or more hard disks, inside a sealed unit Disk storage unit leased for about $3,200 per month back in 1957

Zip Drive Invented by Iomega Medium-to-high-capacity removable floppy disk storage system $10