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Jul 15

1956 HDD

Good history piece!

What’s being loaded into this plane?

1956-HDD

Its a hard disk in 1956…. WTF? :-O

Hard Disk Drive with 5MB storage in 1956.

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

Start appreciating your 1GB flash drives!

YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOD1umMX2s8

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