Full Version: The Hard Disk That Changed The World
<img src='/images/misc/computer.gif' style='float:right' vspace='8' hspace='8'> <b>IBM delivered the first disk drive 50 years ago. It was about the size of two refrigerators and weighed a ton.</b><br /><br />By Steven Levy<br /> Newsweek<br /> <br /> August 7, 2006 issue - If there's a bottle of vintage champagne you've been saving, next month is the time to pop it open: it's the 50th anniversary of hard-disk storage. Don't laugh. On Sept. 13, 1956, IBM shipped the first unit of the RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) and set in motion a process that would change the way we live.<br /><br /> <div class='newslinks'><img src='http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/style_images/1/cs_page.gif'> <b>Link: <a href='http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14096484/site/newsweek/' target='_blank'><font color='red'>MSNBC Newsweek Article</font></a><br />
Wow. The machine back then held 5mb's of information. About half of my mp3's wouldn't even fit in that beast, lol (by that i mean that half of my mp3's are above 5mb per song).
It really is amazing to think that today, we have objects smaller than a matchbox that can hold over 100 times the amount of information as the first hard drive. Technology is astonishing.
And now for a bad joke: I'd really hate to see that hard-drive crash......... *zing*
It really is amazing to think that today, we have objects smaller than a matchbox that can hold over 100 times the amount of information as the first hard drive. Technology is astonishing.
And now for a bad joke: I'd really hate to see that hard-drive crash......... *zing*
Imagine trying to connect that drive to your PC as a slave, or connect to your USB port! 
It could probably hold half of an mp3 
Image going to a LAN-Party... I am scared to see how big the computer looked...
Image going to a LAN-Party... I am scared to see how big the computer looked...
A one-ton disk drive the size of two fridges that held 5mbs of data...I now own a 2 gig flash drive that weighs ounces and is the size of my thumb.
We have come far, my friends!
We have come far, my friends!
Woah! That thing is huge I got two 80GB HDD and they are tiny compared to that thing and whole ALOT more... It amazes me of how things can change.
Warm regards
Kyle
I got two 80GB HDD and they are tiny compared to that thing and whole ALOT more... It amazes me of how things can change.Warm regards
Kyle
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It amazes me of how things can change.
And how fast two... this was just 50 years ago...
Great Story.... Thank You. 
QUOTE(Klinkaroo @ Aug 2 2006, 06:47 AM) 
And how fast two... this was just 50 years ago...
Very True!
Warm regards
Kyle
And I thought my 160gb HD was getting outdated....I think I like it better now.
THis is amazing.
THis is amazing.
QUOTE(cowsgonemadd3 @ Aug 3 2006, 01:59 PM)
And I thought my 160gb HD was getting outdated....I think I like it better now.
THis is amazing.
THis is amazing.
160 gigs?? If you don't want it, I'll take it!!! Please?
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