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Huh? "A single $800 Samsung Galaxy S4 has the same power as 375 IBM 3340 computers that cost a total of $33 million in 1973." The 3340 is a DASD ( direct atta

• greenyoda 13y ago
  In fact, the 3340 disk drive was famous for introducing the "Winchester" technology: "In 1973, IBM introduced the IBM 3340 'Winchester' disk drive, the first significant commercial use of low mass and low load heads with lubricated platters. This technology and its derivatives remained the standard through 2011. Project head Kenneth Haughton named it after the Winchester 30-30 rifle because it was planned to have two 30 MB spindles; however, the actual product shipped with two spindles for data modules of either 35 MB or 70 MB. The name 'Winchester' and some derivatives are still common in some non-English speaking countries to generally refer to any hard disks (e.g. Hungary, Russia)."[1] Yes, 70 megabytes was the capacity of a mainframe-sized disk drive in those days. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives#1950s.E2.80.931970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives#19...