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For a little perspective …

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Sandra Cheng
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IBM 5 MB harddrive shipped 1956In 1956 you needed a forklift and muscles to move 5 Mb. Click here for a history of IBM’s 350 disk storage unit.

 

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