Can You Guess What This Is?

old hdd

That would be a 5MB hard disk drive, made by IBM, in 1956.

In September 1956, IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD).

The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a ‘whopping’ 5 MB of data.

Do you appreciate your 32 GB memory stick a little more now?

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