I thought of you when I saw this last week, Chuck :-)
Nice pics included!
"The world's first disk drive"
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-31979-1.html?tag=nl.e138
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Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chuck Norcutt
Sent: 18 September 2006 16:39
To: Olympus mail list
Subject: [OM] Good thing we had film for backup in 1956
From the Computer Geeks email add this morning for hard drives.
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Happy Birthday Hard Drive!
In 1956 IBM shipped the first hard drive - it was the size of two
refrigerators, held a whopping 5MB of data, and cost about $340,000 in
today's dollars.
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Food for lots of thought. It would take two of these babies to hold a
single E-1 raw file. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
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