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A 1956 Hard Drive

• koenigdavidmj 15y ago
  And of course if you wrote a program to move the read-write arm in certain ways you could make it walk around the room. Or block the door, requiring that a hole be cut in the wall to get back in there. An old professor of mine described these as like a `washing machine in heat'.
• gnosis 15y ago
  "The hard drive pictured weighed over 1 ton, and was capable of storing 5 Mb or data." Considering that personal computers in the early 80's often sported a whopping 4k of RAM, 5 Mb in 1956 was quite a respectable amount of storage. I'm frankly surprised they managed to get 5 Mb on any type of media back in 1956. It's a wonder they had enough data to fill it.
  • astrodust 15y ago
    It took a hell of a long time to fill that thing up with torrents. For one, there weren't many seeders...