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[OM] Re: Good thing we had film for backup in 1956

Subject: [OM] Re: Good thing we had film for backup in 1956
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:46:20 -0400
I'm afraid lots of people are going to discover unreadable archives...
like tomorrow.

Chuck Norcutt


Jón Ragnarsson wrote:

> 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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