This article was published on December 26, 2011

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


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

‘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 5 MB of data.’ 

What was your first computing experience?

Texomatube via Retronaught (Thanks @Atul)

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