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"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 wh
by 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 agoIt took a hell of a long time to fill that thing up with torrents. For one, there weren't many seeders...