As of 2017, magnetic storage media, primarily hard disks, are widely used to store computer data as well as audio and video signals. In the field of computing, the term magnetic storage is preferred and in the field of audio and video production, the term magnetic recording is more commonly used.
The development of the spinning machine by Sir Richard Arkwright in England led directly to the rise of the Industrial Revolution, and a new world of manufactured products.
ENIAC, the mammoth machine credited with helping to start the computer age, fueled the public's imagination about how science and computers could revolutionize the world. Little did they realize how different that early computer was from the ones that would be built a mere fifty years later.ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert built the machine at the University of Pennsylvania at the behest of the U.S. military.NIAC, the mammoth machine credited with helping to start the computer age, fueled the public's imagination about how science and computers could revolutionize the world. Little did they realize how different that early computer was from the ones that would be built a mere fifty years later.