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04/12/2007

A Look Back: 5MB Hard Disk from 1956

Remember when hard disks were the size of cargo containers? If not, the picture above -- from 1956 -- should refresh your memory.
Disks with multi-million byte capacity have been used since 1956, long before there were standard binary prefixes
(Thanks, David P)

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