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Default 1956 IBM hard drive

JimH wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
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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


Leap ahead 25 years..............

Bill Gates, 1981: "640K (roughly 1/2 of a megabyte) ought to be enough for
anybody."

Leap ahead?


That was before under-educated college graduates started writing
applications at Microsoft.