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jeremyc said:
MartG said:
Not a joke per se, but interesting.....
Which reminds me of ...
tr7v8 said:
Not a Joke as such but this is from FB. 5MB drive ships from IBM in 1956
My grandfather worked at ICL back in the 50's, When I showed him a 10mb disk the size of a housebrick back in the mid eighties, he was amazed as the magnetic recording they had been developing at ICL in the 50's was something the size of an oil drum with spindly reading arms that could hold 1kb! Those were the days, when every line of code mattered!
Piersman2 said:
My grandfather worked at ICL back in the 50's, When I showed him a 10mb disk the size of a housebrick back in the mid eighties, he was amazed as the magnetic recording they had been developing at ICL in the 50's was something the size of an oil drum with spindly reading arms that could hold 1kb!
Those were the days, when every line of code mattered!
I remember having a discussion with a retired IBM engineer in 1990 where I told him you could buy a 1GB HDD that fitted in a single 5.25" full height bay, and he called me a liar. Even when I showed him an advert for it in Computer Shopper (it cost £1000 + VAT). He said it just wasn't possible. Those were the days, when every line of code mattered!
Inside my phone right now I have a sliver of plastic and silicon the size of the nail on my little finger which holds 64GB, and my NAS has 5 x 3.5" HDDs each of 6TB capacity. I wonder what he would have made of that?
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