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IBM announced the world’s first HDD, the 3.75MB RAMAC 350 disk storage unit, 69 years ago today — unit weighed more than a ton, 50 platters ran at 1,200 RPM (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I like the bit where they wheel in the equivalent amount of data in stacks of punch cards, and the hard drive takes up more space.

(Not fair I know because they didn't show the punch card reader, but the bits on these platters must be ridiculously large.)

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

How else are they supposed to program with handheld bar magnets? /s