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Title: Do You Know What This Is?
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Published: Nov 1, 2008
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Post Date: 2008-11-01 22:42:13 by James Deffenbach
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Views: 293
Comments: 10

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Do You Know What This Is?

It is a hard drive of 5 MB from 1956...

In September of 1956 IBM launched 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk/drive.

The hard drive weighed about a ton and had a capacity of 5 MB...

And you are complaining about your Pen Drive of 4 GB, isn't that right? (1 image)

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#1. To: James Deffenbach (#0)

Neat post - thanks. What a difference 52 years makes - and the progress will be more than that difference within the next half-century.

Bub  posted on  2008-11-01   23:08:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#2. To: Bub (#1)

You're welcome.

James Deffenbach  posted on  2008-11-01 23:09:12 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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