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Topic: Old school hard disk
Reverend
Posts: 1321
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
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It's a hard disk in 1956... a hard disk drive with 5 MB storage.

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive. The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a total 5 MB of data.

So start appreciating your 8 GB memory stick which has 1600 times the capacity of this monster!
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DirtyApe
Posts: 610
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Makes you appreciate how far we have come dude
athzhr
Posts: 285
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
It's amazing how far computers have come even in the last 20 years.
infi
Posts: 12113
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
i am sure there is another pic around of a 1TB hard drive the size of an ocean liner.
thermite
Posts: 1303
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
They just didn't try hard enough back then.
Hogfather
Posts: 2610
Location: Cairns, Queensland
It's amazing how far computers have come even in the last 20 years.


Huh?
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