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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The magnetic disk invented by IBM in the early-1950s contained 100 concentric tracks on each side. Each track stored 500 alphanumeric characters, yielding a total storage capacity of 5 million characters.

Must have been Pentium based.

22 posted on 07/17/2010 4:41:37 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

Intel’s fifth-generation microarchitecture, the P5, was first released under the Pentium brand on March 22, 1993.


28 posted on 07/18/2010 11:42:07 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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