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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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#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.
"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." lodwick
You're welcome.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Neat Post ! How soon we forget !
Where's your birth certificate Barack ?
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".
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot
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?
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. LOL!
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Just think, all that huge hard drive takes a forklift to put on a plane and it wouldn't hold over a couple of songs!
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. My IBM, retired, neighbor was telling me about back they were able to connect at the amazing speed of 24baud and thought that was smokin'.
Yeah, I guess they did think that was fast. But you sure couldn't use your computer to talk to anyone the way you can now (like on Skype or Google Talk) without a fast connection.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
#2. To: Bub (#1)
Lord Acton
#3. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
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#5. To: James Deffenbach (#4)
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#6. To: noone222 (#3)
Neat Post ! How soon we forget !
Lord Acton
#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".
Lord Acton
#8. To: Dakmar (#5)
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.
Lord Acton
#9. To: James Deffenbach, all (#8)
#10. To: lodwick (#9)
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