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The hard drive IBM shipped in 1956:
- Stored five megabytes
- Cost $11,000 per megabyte *
- Was 60 inches long x 68 inches high x 29 inches deep
- Weighed about one ton
* about $121,819.66 per mb in today’s money.
And nowadays you can get a 2TB SSD that fits in your pocket and costs like $150.
Can someone do the math on how much cheaper and smaller memory is now?
It’s a veritable fuckton cheaper. In scientific terms at least.
I’d wager to say it might even be 2 or even 3 fuck tons cheaper!
Pics like this remind me of the Elliott 405 vs Raspberry Pi Zero tweet:
“Think, Bob - in 70 or so years, maybe we’ll have cut this down to HALF the size!”
The first two hardrives I had experience were not that big, but still required to people to get into the cabinet. A Fujitsu Eagle and a CDC I can’t remember which model that had 5MB fixed and 5MB removable.
