1957 computer delivery

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wvjohn wrote:I remember when I took my first computer course in the early mid 80s at the US Dept Agriculture night school. For our field trip, we got to go into the main computer room and see the hard drive, which was like 100 MB and about half the size of a volkswagen.
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A 1956 IBM 5MB hard drive:

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holy hannah!
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