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Guess What This Is

 

Hint: picture was taken in 1956...

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It's a hard disk drive back in 1956... With 5 MB of storage.

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first 'SUPER' computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a 'whopping' 5 MB of data.
Do you appreciate your 32 GB memory stick a little more now?

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Permalink Reply by Jonas Bergstedt on August 11, 2011 at 1:17am
It's nice to see technology has evolved quite a bit since then =)
Permalink Reply by Henry Jenkins on August 22, 2011 at 3:09pm
haha wow thanks for the image i do love the technology has advanced so much :D

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