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Originally Posted by Jonathan1
From time to time I have a dream about going back in time to when the only hard drive based storage was only held by the military on these huge drums the size of telephone polls. (I think at most they held something like a few hundred KB of info.) Walked up to one of the techs that is so proud of their accomplishment and shove a 512MB CF in their face and run off laughing.
The people who were involved in the first hard drives have to feel a mix of pride that they started all this but at the same time utter astonishment at how pathetic those devices were in comparison to recent advancements.
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Yup, takes me back to about 1970. University of Utah. Univac 1108. FastRand Drum. Punched cards. Line printers.
And now we have all of that room full of computing power in the palm of our hand !!!