This is what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956 (note: required a forklift).

@glynmoody We shouldn’t scoff. Imagine what people 50 years from now will be saying about our tech? :)

@chbidmead yes, good point

@barton71 oh yes

@Zee iPad screen covers: an option or necessity? What do you think Zee?

@amberportercox Quite probably, computer museums. One was still in a co I worked at in Sydney in the late 90′s though…(since closed)

@a2kate i’ve never used one and am happy

@narniebiryani You wish.

1956=2*2*3*163 RT @gaby407: This is what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956 (note: required a forklift). http://t.co/lV2uv7F3

@alexitauzin merci pour vos merveilleux liens

@seppo0010 un barril de crudo costaba 3 dolares, hoy cuesta 100 aprox… es interesante comparar precios.

@dev_jac ojo igual comparar precios reales y no nominales, no es lo mismo un peso hoy y entonces.

@gsempe excellent je le vois dans ma chambre !!! lol

@ubermoe how epic are their faces while looking at it :P

@dbkahn Concorde http://t.co/bkjLDs5A

@GuitatePro Jejeje… Lo que nadie sabe, hasta ahora, es que tengo 42 pisos subterráneos. Jejejeje…

@soylafina Awww cosita!

@biiiiiizzzzzz lolll

@BruunPhoto @zee great pic though, memories of 50MB drive in ’88 flooding back and audio cassettes and microdrives on my Sinclair Spectrum

What is the cost of .

@kafaak ใหญ่มากกกกครับ :3

They probably figured it would take years to fill being state of the art and all. Boy, compare that to the size of a 32 GB MicroSD format. They would never have believed it or imagined it. I was a youngster back in 1956 and even today I’m amazed at how memory has shrunk in size.

@chbidmead http://t.co/ROCyc7ou

@alanlzd wow

@bdconf My 9 year old son “How much did that hold?” My reply “5 floppy disks.” “What’s that?” *img search* “I’ve never seen one.” I feel old

Wouldnt that hard drive’s worth in paper technically be able to store more information? I mean 2 pages of photos alone would be more than 5 mb, not considering stacks and stacks of paper data. Maybe it had a really good search feature or something..

@bdconf http://t.co/pqLSltXP

@MladenPrajdic @tijs the Ramac would probably be worth quite a bit in terms of scrap metal (1/2)

@mackenziepricee Holy cow that is massive!!

@bergpirat Die brauchen die Leute NIEMALS! :)

@mackenziepricee would you mind listing a few of your favorite iPad apps? Getting started with my new one

@CB_27 and try out the OneNote app n

@isaacalves @Vonster Wow that’s nuts.

@whereishawkins That took me a minute. I thought it was a joke about a bunch of little men in a tube.

@whereishawkins Yup, I have a key on a Swiss Army knife

#Nowreading 需要起重機xD RT @TNW This is what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956 (note: required a forklift). http://t.co/9YkQz9Ho

@SonjaMissio why’s that?

@mjl40 wow!!!

I wonder what they stored on those precious 5mb.

@whereishawkins correct.

@iamTongueNCheek They were probably working on a prototype of Angry Birds ;-)

@Varun Ramesh But it wouldn’t be able to read the data and send it to the processor, or write new data! In terms of storage, that’s 41 943 040 bits of data; i.e. 40 million zeros and ones. If you divided a piece of paper into cm squares you could get 600 black or white squares on a piece of paper, so you’d need around 70000 pieces of paper to get 5mb. Even if they were mm squares, you’d need around 700 sheets, which would need to be arranged in such a way that each part of every sheet could be accessed and read and written upon within 30-50 ms!

@marketing28 Just imagine what a Gig would look like back then.

@huntadkins Man, can you imagine finding a stylish case for that thing?

@GavRov hilarious!

@Samcornwell lmao!

@nickgenes have a look at this one: http://t.co/ubANAkKq

@Charlie_Davis ….this is how we have changed as well with technology…..

@clogette Would make a fine bar counter.

@hajak Oh boy! Guess how many friends you gain by just having one of those in your man cave at that time! The glory days of 1956.

@HelReynolds Amazing how technology has raced ahead, isn’t it!

@SonjaMissio look up true crypt. I keep all my secret and super secret stuff on my thumb drive in a true crypt container. Handy.

Personally I would have protected it with a shipping crate, not a piece of string.

@propagare Here was the first one I owned and built, I think I still have it: http://t.co/oOWcXQjm

@HelReynolds Agile working would be a challenge for sure. Essential equipment for all staff would be a forklift!!

@prasanthb1979 :-) Happy New Year, my friend. I hear you’re back in the Corp saddle. Congrats!

@wsaryada Hey thanks :) Ya we are facing some issue since yesterday evening. I am following up with hosting guys. Hope site will be up soon

This 5Mb drive would have replaced about 73,000 punch cards at the time.

These 80 column punch cards were invented by IBM in 1928! And were still in use and still required when I first started programming.

Only 72 columns were usable on these cards, so if one managed to cram each card full that would be 72,818 cards for 5Mb.

This would have been a stack of cards 13 metres high. That’s a building of over 4 storeys! And we had some of these in the store room!

The “minor” problem was that if you did in fact manage to cram the card full it would be so ‘holey’ and flimsy that they would likely buckle and then jam the card reader in the process. Oh, and by the way it would have taken over 4 hours to read these cards into the machine!

Oh I miss the good old days.

@lignasi sobre todo por el volumen que ocupa :P @fransimo

@tobias_feijoo ;-) @lignasi @inocuo

@Friend Less – To say that it was used to store more original data than most modern phones tables or even laptop/desktop computer is really not an accurate portrayal at all. One decent quality photo taken with a consumer digital camera would fill this drive up and possibly some.

@ITCOMS Was het nodig?

@mikemiller_ Totally! (yes that was a very delayed response)

And look at their bewildered faces…

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