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

Visionz · 2011-12-27 14:06:11

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/12/26/this-is-what-a-5mb-hard-drive-looked-like-is-1956-required-a-forklift/ http://thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/12/Screen-Shot-2011-12-26-at-18.38.18.png And it cost $56,700: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_magnetic_disk_drives#IBM.27s_first_HDD_versus_its_last_HDDs

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Dec 27, 2011 | 07:06 AM

Visionz

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

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/201...ed-a-forklift/

And it cost $56,700: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_mag..._its_last_HDDs

Dec 27, 2011 | 07:08 AM

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32GB under $56.70 and the size of your fingernail.

+1 for technology

Dec 27, 2011 | 10:56 AM

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Dec 27, 2011 | 05:27 PM

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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.

Dec 27, 2011 | 06:25 PM

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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.

Depreciation sucks a left nutt.