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Firestorm
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« on: July 16, 2010, 08:20:40 AM »




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 8 GB memory stick now?
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Rb_Tullamore-Dew
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2010, 11:42:35 AM »
LoL, nice find, Fire. smile

And still the IT branch is only there, where the car-industry was in the mid-thirties. Many more developments to come......
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