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

[Mark Jarvis]

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."