[wellylug] On a lighter note: Happy birthday hard drive!

Brent Wood pcreso at pcreso.com
Wed Aug 16 18:34:45 NZST 2006



Take your platters out for a celebratory spin :-)

Out of the meaningless trivia coffers.....

Happy birthday, hard drive

On Sept. 13, the hard drive will turn 50. Hitachi and others will be on hand to
celebrate the achievement at the Computer History Museum.

It has been a wild half century. The first magnetic drive, the RAMAC created by
IBM, weighed a ton and could hold 5MB of data on 50 24-inch circumference
platters.


Brent




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