Can you guess what this is?
Submitted by Tim Roper on Thursday, March 08, 2012
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That would be a 5MB hard disk drive, made by IBM, in 1956.
In September 1956, IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first 'SUPER' computer with a hard disk drive (HDD).
The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a 'whopping' 5 MB of data.
Do you appreciate your 32 GB memory stick a little more now?
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Now how am I going to fit 5000 of those into my MacBook Pro?