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    Guess What This Is? And don't cheat!! (try and not look below the hint)



    Hint: picture was taken in 1956...

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    It's a hard disk drive back in 1956... with 5 MB of storage.

    In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first 'SUPER' computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a 'whopping' 5 MB of data.

    Do you appreciate your 8 GB memory stick now, or a 3GS iPhone with 32 GB of memory?


    An example of a technological singularity event ??
    I would doubt if those guys could ever perceive that 55 years in their future many passengers would be boarding onto planes with laptops in their hand-luggage x200,000 more powerful than that machine they were struggling with to put on that plane.
    Last edited by Hoop; 13-06-2010 at 10:23 AM.

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