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On 21 May 1952 IBM shipped the first commercial magnetic tape drive. For the next 50 years backup was the most boring job in IT. Then ransomware made it the most important. The story of how a tape reel became a board-level conversation.
In June 1942 a German engineer named Walter Bruch installed the first closed-circuit television system to watch V-2 rocket launches because the test crews kept dying. Eighty-three years later, AI is watching the watchers.
In February 1946 ENIAC went live in a single basement room and consumed 150 kilowatts. Eight decades later, a single AI training run can draw more power than a small city. The story of how the data centre became civilisation's most expensive building.
In 1985 the average enterprise stored 100,000 pages a year in steel filing cabinets and lost 7 percent of them annually. Forty years later AI extracts metadata from a scanned invoice in 200 milliseconds. How DMS turned the most boring back-office job into the foundation of digital business.
On 22 May 1973 Bob Metcalfe sketched out Ethernet on a sheet of paper at Xerox PARC. Fifty-three years later that same sketch is the foundation of every enterprise, hyperscale data centre and AI training cluster on the planet. How a coaxial bus became civilisation's nervous system.
Every computer ever built has needed clean, continuous power. The story of how electromechanical generators became modular lithium-ion UPS systems, told through the engineers and outages that shaped the category.
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