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"He that is down need fear no fall,
he that is low no pride. "

- John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Posted by Bill @ 9:03 pm CST
Filed under: Technology

Know what this is?

Big Hard Drive

It's a computer hard drive from 1956, used in the IBM 305 RAMAC computer.

The hard drive weighed over a ton and stored a whopping 5 megabytes.

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Comments on "Back in the day":

1. Brian in Fresno - 01/29/2010 10:36 am CST

Move over iPad!

2. Bill - 01/29/2010 5:39 pm CST

This thing would smash an iPad to bits!

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