On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 18:39 -0700, Mark Jarvis wrote:
> Found on slashdot:
>
> Hardware: The 305 RAMAC — First Commercial Hard Drive
> Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 10, @03:15PM
> from the looking-back-for-perspective dept.
> Data Storage
> Captain DaFt writes "Snopes.com has an article that gives an interesting
> look back at the first commercial hard drive, the IBM 350. Twice as big
> as a refrigerator and weighing in at a ton, it packed a whopping 4.4MB!
> Compare that to the 1-4GB sticks that most of us have on our keychains
> today."
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I think many of use recollect similar...
I remember my very first hard drive, a 10 Mb 'Sider' hard drive which
was partitioned with Dos 3.3, ProDos 1.1 and CP/M and I thought I would
never run out of disk space
;^)
Cost $700
Long gone ;-(
Craig
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