Today I was thinking about the tiny hard drive I posted a couple of days ago. Then I started to think about the RAMAC, the first commercialy available hard drive. It cost about $250,000 a year to lease (in today's dollars) and weighed a full ton. It would take about 600 of them to hold as much as the postage stamp sized hard drive seen below. I know that a computer's CPU has a kazillion transistors on it and that is truly amazing, but to see some thing that small that has moving parts just blows me away. cool beans.
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