On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:56:07 GMT, wrote:

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 18:21:35 -0500, " JimH" ask wrote:


"Eisboch" wrote in message
om...
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?

At that time, he was exaclty correct.

For about ten minutes. :)

One of the weirdest things I ever heard during the early mini-computer
hey day was Ed DeCastro saying in a meeting that he thought that email
would be strictly limited to inter-office communications and really
wouldn't work outside that setting.

~~ snerk ~~