When you think about it, storage is a decent present this holiday season. Whether its memory cards for cameras, or external hard drives, or wireless hard drives for your tablet, they are the perfect stocking stuffer for any tech enthusiast.
This definitely was not the case 60 years ago. Break out the reams of wrapping paper for this 5MB beauty. The original IBM 305 RAMAC was hardly a stocking stuffer.
According to Wikipedia entry for IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), “the RAMAC unit weighed over a ton, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes. According to Munce, the storage capacity of the drive could have been increased beyond five megabytes, but IBM’s marketing department at that time was against a larger capacity drive, because they didn’t know how to sell a product with more storage.”
Man, how times have changed…180 degrees of change.
Enjoy.
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Damn I have files that are larger than that :p
That is by far one of the best photos I have seen in a while! I am grateful my external is MUCH smaller.