This came from my old friend Don Anderson 

Can You Guess What This Is? 

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Hint: picture was taken in 1956…

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It's a hard disk drive back in 1956… With 5 MB of storage. 

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.

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