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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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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I mean, I'm sure cost savings on labour were noticed as well. And that's not a bad thing.