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This is what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956

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Old 12-27-2011, 07:06 AM
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Default This is what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956

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And it cost $56,700: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_mag..._its_last_HDDs
Old 12-27-2011, 07:08 AM
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32GB under $56.70 and the size of your fingernail.

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To be fair, 5MB of data would be pretty ridiculous in 1957. Considering most computers 30 years later were still using HDs smaller than that, it would have been an absolute buttload of data back then.
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I paid over $230 for a 32G micro sd card... One of the first Sandisk ones to hit market.



Was rocking it back in may of 2K10.



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^^I was looking at those today for my Transformer. $30.
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