Data storage device

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.

Media types

Phonograph cylinders

Busy-Bee Records

• Busy-Bee cylinders

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

Electric Phono Records

• Electric Record cylinders (gold-moulded)

Indestructible Records

• Oxford indestructible cylinders (1912-1922)

Lambert Records

• Lambert concert cylinders
• Lambert cylinders "Pink Lamberts" (until 1905)

Pathé Records

• Pathé cylinders
• Pathé salon cylinders

Sterling Records

• Sterling cylinders (1904-?)

U.S. Phonograph Company

• Lakeside indestructible cylinders
• U.S. Everlasting cylinders

White Records

• White Record cylinders