[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ah....photos:

In his left is a 24-inch platter from IBM's RAMAC

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Bill Healy, executive vice president at Hitachi, holds up a platter from a 1-inch microdrive in his right hand. In his left is a 24-inch platter from IBM's RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), which came out 50 years ago.

A 1-inch 8GB platter holds more than 80,000 times as much data as a single 24-inch RAMAC platter. An 8GB 1-inch drive holds 1,600 times as much data as RAMAC.

[Marine_Uncle]

Sort of humbling for all us old farts that used to work in the dark ages ah.