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The 305 RAMAC — First Commercial Hard Drive

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the looking-back-for-perspective dept.

Captain DaFt writes "Snopes.com has an article that gives an interesting look back at the first commercial hard drive, the IBM 350. Twice as big as a refrigerator and weighing in at a ton, it packed a whopping 4.4MB! Compare that to the 1-4GB sticks that most of us have on our keychains today."

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  1. frosty pist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post