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Default 1956 IBM hard drive
On Dec 4, 8:29 am, "Eisboch" wrote:
http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006...puter-1956.jpg

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard
disk drive(HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

That's not a typo ..... 5MB of data.

Eisboch

I built a computer that did addition in the fifth grade, it was not
nearly that big.
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