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Storage development in perspective

Tim Davoren - Wednesday, July 14, 2010
A friend (Carl, thank you), just sent me this...a little reminder of how far data storage technology has come in 50 years.



In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the  first 'SUPER' computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a 'whopping' 5 MB of data. Not even big to hold a digitised MP3 of John Coltrane's 'Blue Train' recorded the following year.
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