Re: (semi OT) For those that remember (and those that don't)

Y'know, as I sit here looking at a 24" monitor that cost the equivalent
of 20 hours' salary, next to a computer with more memory than existed
in the world in 1965, I have to say, in a way, I long for the days when
technology was huge, ominous, and limited to the highly trained elite.

I wish I wasn't writing PHP for web users to see pretty pictures, but
rather C that generated bland text on green screens.

I was born 25 years too late.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Jarvis <mark.jarvis@pvmail.maricopa.edu>
To: plug <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 6:39 pm
Subject: (semi OT) For those that remember (and those that don't)










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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