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Post by sh3lby on Sept 14, 2006 0:31:25 GMT -4
Fifty years ago, all of us at Engadget weren't even a glimmer in our mothers' eyes -- in fact, now that we think about it probably most of our parents hadn't even met yet. By that logic, it's hard for us to imagine a world without hard drives, which were born 50 years ago today, back on September 13, 1956. On that fateful day IBM created the original -- called the RAMAC 305 -- which held around 5 MB of data at the cost of $10,000 per megabyte, and was the size of two refrigerators. By 1980, Big Blue had one-upped itself with the introduction of the first one gigabyte hard drive, which was half the physical size, weighed 550 pounds, and cost only $40,000. Flash forward to 2006, where the fingernail-size microSD card kicking around in our cell phones and cameras these days (albeit not a hard drive) now costs about $10 per gigabyte -- gotta love the march of technology. By that logic, we should have a new type of terabyte storage device to carry around by about 2056, probably embedded in our bodies and hard-wired to our brains. www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/ |
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Post by Rodeo Jock on Sept 14, 2006 8:19:31 GMT -4
Boy do I feel good on that one. Even MY parents didn't meet until 1957!! WHOO HOOO!
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Post by walshmobile on Sept 14, 2006 12:21:41 GMT -4
haha possibly but we're also running out of ways to shrink the stuff...for now anyway. Though I do recall reading something about them testing new ways to record info aside from a magnetic drive.
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Post by sh3lby on Sept 14, 2006 12:30:21 GMT -4
shrink stuff? what you talkin bout. Bigger is better esp with files!
There are the optical cards that can hold several terabytes *moan* but the actual reader for the cards (which are dirt cheap) is in the several thousands range. damn media is cheap! but the reader isn't!
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Post by walshmobile on Sept 14, 2006 12:31:38 GMT -4
I mean actual physical size not storage capacity.
I don't know if in 2056 I want a 3.5" HD in my leg or whatever
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Post by Rodeo Jock on Sept 14, 2006 12:39:39 GMT -4
Even more importantly, September 13th is the birthday of the Hershey's Chocolate Kiss. Screw the hard drive, give me the CHOCOLATE!!
AND... you'd have no need for your hard drive, if George Henderson hadn't invented the typewriter ribbon on this day (09/14) in 1886!
AND... Derek Hewlett was born on this cold, snowy day in 1981.
AND... The Waltons premiered on CBS on this day in 1972.
Good night, John Boy...
Good night, Mary Ellen...
Good night, Grandpa...
Good night, Elizabeth...
Good night, TBWRC...
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Post by djtitoramon on Sept 14, 2006 15:06:05 GMT -4
Even more importantly, September 13th is the birthday of the Hershey's Chocolate Kiss. Screw the hard drive, give me the CHOCOLATE!! AND... you'd have no need for your hard drive, if George Henderson hadn't invented the typewriter ribbon on this day (09/14) in 1886! AND... The Waltons premiered on CBS on this day in 1972. Good night, John Boy... Good night, Mary Ellen... Good night, Grandpa... Good night, Elizabeth... Good night, TBWRC... .. was there something that you forgot to mention? Like my birthday! |
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Post by Rodeo Jock on Sept 14, 2006 15:20:09 GMT -4
What are you talking about... it's in there!
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Post by ladyoftheflame on Sept 14, 2006 15:54:33 GMT -4
Ehhem... was there something that you forgot to mention? Like my birthday! I totally sent you a happy birthday PM! |
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Post by d on Sept 15, 2006 9:31:41 GMT -4
are the new 8gb ipod nanos 2x4gb flash drives or something else?
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Post by Scottyg on Sept 15, 2006 9:41:31 GMT -4
I'm holding out for the 19th, National Talk Like a Pirate Day!! Yarrr!
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Post by Rodeo Jock on Sept 15, 2006 9:58:35 GMT -4
I'm holding out for the 19th, National Talk Like a Pirate Day!! Yarrr! YAY! You remembered!!! We should get eyepatches for the Nat's Game. LOL. |
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Post by anwilli on Sept 15, 2006 10:10:02 GMT -4
Yet another random "holiday" to use as an excuse for Scoots to celebrate and drink alcohol....
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Post by sh3lby on Sept 15, 2006 12:20:20 GMT -4
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Post by Rodeo Jock on Sept 15, 2006 12:27:54 GMT -4
That's hot. But it's not the 8gig! |
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