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This is a picture of an IBM hard drive being loaded onto an airplane in 1956. According to @HistoricalPics, which tweeted the picture, itβs a 5 megabyte drive, and it weighed more than 2,000 pounds.
Can't put it on your desk for sure.
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@poemblaze @disk4mat Drum storage.
That sucker's not even a DISK drive, that's a DRUM drive. Yikes.
@disk4mat They had to start somewhere. That's big!