A computer from the mid-20th century would fill an entire room -a big room, at that! IBM introduced the 305 RAMAC system in 1956, the first computer to use a hard drive. What you see here is that hard drive, which weighed a ton and held a whopping 5 megabytes of memory storage. It was named the 350 Disk Storage Unit. At the time, you could lease the entire computer setup for a mere $3,200 a month! Link -via Bits and Pieces
Amazing... and to think I have about 6,000 times that storage capacity in a chip half the size of a postage stamp in my phone.
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Hahah, that would hold like one mp3.
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LOL@Rawley. That was what I had in mind, too. Would probably also hold about 15 to 25 photos, 640x480. Haha!
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One mp3, but how long would it take to play?
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