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Subject: [OM] Re: Good thing we had film for backup in 1956
From: Jón Ragnarsson <jonr@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:44:45 +0000
Yes, imagine trying to read data from these babies today...
Will the 22nd century be the age of darkness, with unreadable archives?
J.

Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>  From the Computer Geeks email add this morning for hard drives.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Happy Birthday Hard Drive!
> 
> In 1956 IBM shipped the first hard drive - it was the size of two 
> refrigerators, held a whopping 5MB of data, and cost about $340,000 in 
> today's dollars.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Food for lots of thought.  It would take two of these babies to hold a 
> single E-1 raw file.  :-)
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
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