Changing Technology

As technology has come and gone, we've all had to make changes to accomodate the latest hardware and software.  What do you do to store your older computer files?  You use the latest technology to save them and then remove the files from your computer.  That's what we've done at our office, too.

Unfortunately, all the changing technology has made it so our electronic file storage from years ago is almost extinct, and one day it will be inaccessible.  One of the means of our electronic file storage is 3 1/2" floppy disks.  Yes, the little, hard disks from two decades ago.  Today Stacey has been taking AutoCad files off of some of these disks so we can keep the files for the future.  It's possible you are astonished we still have a drive to read these files, but it's true.  We have one computer with a 3 1/2" drive, which we've needed because of our old file storage.

One interesting fact about these 3 1/2" floppies is their storage capacity:  1.44 MB.  That was pretty impressive back in the day.  However, the picture above was taken at 1.91 MB.  That wouldn't have even fit on one of those disks.

All of the files on the floppy disks are being saved to our office network.  It has a 4 terabyte capacity.  A disk, a picture and a network aren't exactly the same thing, but it goes to prove the point about the changes associated with technology through the years.

Technology is an interesting thing.