Back in 1956, a PanAm plane was needed to to transport a 5 MB hard drive - http://boredomtherapy.com/rare-history-photos/
Now we have 2TB external HDs that fit in a shirt pocket.
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| Author: | nonblogger [ Thu Apr 23, 2015 1:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | 1956 5MB Hard Drive |
Back in 1956, a PanAm plane was needed to to transport a 5 MB hard drive - http://boredomtherapy.com/rare-history-photos/ Now we have 2TB external HDs that fit in a shirt pocket.
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| Author: | Chris [ Thu Apr 23, 2015 7:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1956 5MB Hard Drive |
5MB?!  I have collectively somewhere around 20TB worth of hard drives in a 13" plastic container... which takes up maybe less than 5% of the physical space of that thing? Wow. |
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| Author: | fordloco [ Thu Apr 23, 2015 8:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1956 5MB Hard Drive |
Showing my age I guess but I remember learning to type in BASIC programs on my TRS80 and thought it was the greatest thing imaginable. 
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| Author: | nonblogger [ Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1956 5MB Hard Drive |
fordloco wrote: Showing my age I guess but I remember learning to type in BASIC programs on my TRS80 and thought it was the greatest thing imaginable.  I remember those TRS80s too. And Commodore 64s. And saving the programs on a tape recorder!chris217 wrote: 5MB?! I have collectively somewhere around 20TB worth of hard drives in a 13" plastic container... which takes up maybe less than 5% of the physical space of that thing? Wow. Some of our UHQ images would take up that entire unit. One picture!
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| Author: | tdubya68801 [ Mon Apr 27, 2015 6:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1956 5MB Hard Drive |
I used Apple II's in high school and college. The one my high school borrowed (for my trigonometry class when I was a senior) had a cassette recorder on it. My first computer in 1993 was an IBM PS/1 486 with a 175MB hard drive and 4MB RAM. It had a 2400bps modem and it would probably take an hour to download an HD cap. |
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| Author: | braniac [ Thu May 14, 2015 10:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1956 5MB Hard Drive |
You guys are youngsters. How about this, 1972, DEC PDP8/L with paper tape input and output and a teletype keyboard/printer, hard drives didn't exist then. 
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| Author: | braniac [ Thu May 14, 2015 10:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1956 5MB Hard Drive |
nonblogger wrote: Back in 1956, a PanAm plane was needed to to transport a 5 MB hard drive - http://boredomtherapy.com/rare-history-photos/ Now we have 2TB external HDs that fit in a shirt pocket. The term hard drive didn't exist then. This was most likely a magnetic drum, a big cylinder coated with material on the outside that is similar to what is on hard drive platters today. (History lesson courtesy of your friendly braniac braniac) |
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| Author: | nonblogger [ Sat May 16, 2015 11:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1956 5MB Hard Drive |
braniac wrote: You guys are youngsters. How about this, 1972, DEC PDP8/L with paper tape input and output and a teletype keyboard/printer, hard drives didn't exist then.  I was 5, but I did later read about such things. Makes me wonder what computers will be like in another 40 years. Will they continue to advance at a similar rate?
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