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The Hard Drive Turns 50

JHU writes "When the hard drive was first introduced on September 13, 1956, it required a humongous housing and 50 24-inch platters to store 1/2400 as much data as can be fit on today's largest capacity 1-inch hard drives. Back then, the small team at IBM's San Jose-based lab was seeking a way to replace tape with a storage mechanism that allowed for more-efficient random access to data. The question was, how to bring random-access storage to business computing?"

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  1. the 'hard drive' is really just beginning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue/recovery initiative/mandate is really just kicking in.

    from previous post: many demand corepirate nazi execrable stop abusing US

    we the peepoles?

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    lookout bullow.

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    it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....

    as we all ?know?, change is inevitable, & denying/ignoring gravity, logic, morality, etc..., is only possible, on a temporary basis.

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  2. First post? More like GP (Gay Post) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hope that you lose karma for this, chamelion.

  3. Re:A funny memory about hard drive memory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    so is your "love life".