Posted on 09/29/2007 1:10:40 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
What a Dramatic picture....
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How time does fly. I remember when a 20megabyte harddrive was a big deal.
Thanks for the memories, Ernest.
Wikipedia on early IBM storage...not sure which one this is:
The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Device was introduced in June 1980. It used new film head technology and had a capacity of 2.52 gigabytes with a data transfer rate of 3 megabytes per second. Average access time was 16 ms. Purchase price at time of introduction ranged from $81,000 to $142,200. Due to problems encountered, the first units did not ship until October, 1981.[
Yep, same here ... I remember upgrading my *monster* 386 machine with a 384meg HD back in the early 90's ... thought it was the top of the world and that I would *never* use all that storage space up! Man, within a year it was all used up and I was looking for a bigger HD .... a 1gig (count 'em ONE GIG!) .... that one lasted another year or two until all filled up with no place to go .......
/laughs
I go way back to....first program I wrote was a Fortran program for an IBM 650 that had a Drum Memory........before core memories....totally buried the machine....
Oh, dude! You made me laugh at my younger self.
I remember putting in a 180meg IDE drive and thinking "That's it, and the end of it. I'll NEVER need another hard drive."
Wooohhahahahahahhaahah!
I go way back to....first program I wrote was a
program for an IBM 650 that had a Drum Memory........before core memories...
(size comparison only to the size of the SD card adapter)
Ping!
NOw we have:
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Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST31000340NS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
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That one Terabyte Drive will fit into a PC 3.5 inch slot of your computer case....
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Thanks ...so it is labeled as a 3380 one Gigabyte ....
Reference Link:
Disk Storage Unit – 50 years on
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The year is 1956 - mechanical memory, CRT tubes and capacitive drums are now devices of a bygone era, whilst punched card, paper tape, magnetic drum stores and magnetic tape are a familiar sight within the landscape of computing. What more could you want? What more could technology possibly offer in terms of data storage?
Until the turn of the 1950’s, it was impossible to imagine what might be missing from the world of computing. Then, in 1952, IBM embarked upon a new research & development programme to investigate the concept of a rotating magnetic disk stack, based on its volumetric efficiency for recording surface storage. This research was to provide the answer to the problem of instant ‘filing and finding’ of information and would revolutionise the computer industry.
During the 1950’s, paper tape systems had an optimum read speed of about 15 cps (characters per second), whilst drum stores were notorious for malfunctioning and expensive to maintain. Furthermore, magnetic tape continued to be a luxury that only national defence programmes could afford.
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I'm flabbergasted! The technology is running so fast I can't even keep up with the reading anymore.
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