Just a quick entry today. I came across a fun series of web pages (10 in all) that document the history of computer hard drives with photos from 1956 to the present day. I thought you might enjoy it also, so here is the link to the site.
I really liked the opening picture of IBM's first hard drive in 1956. It consisted of 50 platters that were 24 inches across each and had a total storage capacity of 5 Megabytes. That is about 1/200th of the amount of storage of the small compactflash that fits inside my digital camera, or .00003 of the storage size of my current hard drive.
We have come a long, long way. Enjoy.
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