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We have lots of stuff like that standing around the university that I go to. Most of it newer than that though, like for instance, in one room we have an odd-shaped couch.. It’s actually an old cray supercomputer, that was the fastest computer in Sweden for a couple of years in the eighties. Now it’s only practical use is as furniture.. :)

HDD or Drum?

Disks, not a drum. I got to see a 1405 once, which was physically very similar to the 305, except transistorized and somewhat larger capacity. The disks were 36 inches in diameter (about 91 cm. if you prefer) and I think there were 52 of them in the stack. The two heads were pulled out of the stack and moved up and down to select a particular disk. I don’t know if the 305 offered it, but the 1405 I saw had an optional second set of heads. Either set of heads could be used to read the same set of tracks and at the time I saw it (it was about 20 years old) they second set seemed to be used primarily for a second chance at reading data when the first heads couldn’t.

someone needs to photoshop a 6ft high usb port onto the side of it…

wow, Image what just the next 5 or 10 years will bring. It’s endless. Thanks to those people I can TYPE this.

Thank You!

LOL 5MB they can’t be serious ???

But like Yannis said thanks to those people i can type this with 4TB+ of storage space in my house :)

That thing belongs in a museum.

wow where will it get to the point that it cant go no furfer?.

>> LOL 5MB they can’t be serious ???
Hey, I started computig on a machine which had 4 Ko of ram, and no floppy nor hard disk. When you wanted something, you had to program the computer for that (it was a commodore PET).
Only years later, had I an 10 Mo hdd, and it was like unlimited space…

oh my GOD o.o! How did they transport info?! I mean… about *calculates* 800 times that amount can be fitted on our thumbs nowadays o.O

@Steev Hahah… that would look cool :D

Ah, RAMAC…I remember a 555 RAMAC drum. Worked on an IBM 709 (nuvista tubes). Yes, I’ve been around way too long….

ops, is that huge? WTF… how the people going to work…

Is that the Captain or the Co-Pilot operating the fork lift? Doesn’t matter. If he thinks that he can load that cargo onto the plane facing that direction, He’s probably not much of a pilot either.

Perhaps you mean “Start appreciating your 64 GB memory stick!” in stead of 1GB:

http://www.netbookusers.com/smf/index.php?topic=95.0

Formattable down to 3mb

Всем привет! Я здесь новенький. Примите в вашу компанию? :)

Вот это да… Ð’ некоторые жизненные моменты волосы могут шевелиться и не только на голове :)

What does the 1gb memory have to do with the HDD.
You should have ended in “enjoy your 500gb hdd”.

Hey Rich B, how on earth did you manage to turn an IT article into a criticism of equipment handling and personnel ?
a. The guy on the forklift is wearing a ground staff hat (the pilot and co-pilot are probably the guys in the plane).
b. It’s a marketing photo – not an equipment handling photo. The pic shows the part face on (before being spun around for the loading or unloading- probably the former)
c. The reason the pic was taken was to show the easy portability of the latest equipment for computers

I can’t be bothered doing the maths but at 5MB for that package, how large would a 1TB drive be? :)

Эээ, объясните, пожалуйста, а то я что то не совсем въехал в тему, это как?

Познавательно. Подпишусь-ка я на RSS пожалуй. :)

Конечно! Это точно всем пригодится.

Познавательно, хотя не мешало бы чуть подетальней написать, а то есть немножко непонятных моментов :)

Make a hard disk drive that size nowadays, it’ll clear 10’000GB!!!