Do Solid State Hard Drives have HP-41C/TI-59 Roots?

[Dave Britten]

The idea of using silicon (RAM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash, etc.) for non-volatile storage isn't particularly novel, and I doubt modern SSDs owe too much to TI's use of strictly-ROM modules. And I don't believe there were any EEPROM or flash modules for the 41C, right?

I think Psion might have been one of the earliest to use the term "Solid State Disk" to refer to long-term storage in the form of flash:

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/3...isk-(SSD)/

They also had EPROM datapaks, and a few RAMpaks and Flashpaks for the older Organiser series, but I don't think they ever used the term with that product line.