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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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Translation 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?
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#4. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
I remember one of my professors talking about working for one of the Big Three automakers in the late seventies and how they were excited to get a new mainframe with 16k. He recalled several comments like "16K? We could never use all that".
#5. To: James Deffenbach (#4)
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Maybe it was late 60's, 16K sounds ridiculous small. It's incredible though, that anyone with a couple hundred dollars can have who know how many times the computing power it took to develop A-bombs. I'd bet if I was choosy about it, was willing to waste a lot of time, I could find a fine Pentium-4 box in good working order for under $30. Sounds like the making of a new reality show, know any rich hollywood coke-heads?
LOL!
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#7. To: Dakmar (#4)
I remember one of my professors talking about working for one of the Big Three automakers in the late seventies and how they were excited to get a new mainframe with 16k. He recalled several comments like "16K? We could never use all that".
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