
This picture is of a hard disk drive that was launched in 1956 by IBM. The 305 RAMAC, "SUPER" computer with a hard disk drive weighed over a ton and stored a whopping 5 MB of data.
Kinda makes you appreciate your tiny little 32 GB phone and itty bitty 8 GB memory stick, huh?
Progress. Cool.
1 comments:
Fascinating, truly.
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