Happy Birthday to the Hard Drive!

[Damion Chaplin]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127104-pg,1-RSS,RSS/article.html' target='_blank'>http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127104-pg,1-RSS,RSS/article.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Today, the hard drive is found everywhere--from the PCs we use daily to MP3 players and memory keys so small you can toss them in your pocket and forget you're carrying around a hard drive. But when the hard drive was first introduced on September 13, 1956, it required a humongous housing and 50 24-inch platters to store 1/2400 as much data as can be fit on today's largest capacity 1-inch hard drives. Back then, the small team at IBM's San Jose-based lab was seeking a way to replace tape with a storage mechanism that allowed for more-efficient random access to data. The question was, how to bring random-access storage to business computing?"</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/127104-MB_RAMAC_compare.jpg" /> <br /><br />Everyone, please join me in wishing the Hard Drive a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! :new-bday: It is with the Hard Drive's hard work and dedication that Digital Media Thoughts is what it is right now. It is clearly very good at what it does, and it shows in the digital media it I/Os. Thanks, Hard Drive for all that you have done. Have a very happy birthday! I would give you a link to its Amazon wishlist, but so far it hasn't responded to my inquiries on the subject.

[MitchellO]

would give you a link to its Amazon wishlist, but so far it hasn't responded to my inquiries on the subject.

Maybe you need to get a faster drive :D

[Darius Wey]

Ah, hard drive. How you've pleased me, how you've teased me. Here's to another 50 years. ;)

[Tim Williamson]

Happy Birfday hard drive!!! Here's to at least a few more years (until flash memory prices are on par with hard drives). :)

[MitchellO]

Speaking of flash memory, I picked up one of these 8GB beauties today :D

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4213/cimg7251smallos9.jpg

[Damion Chaplin]

Maybe you need to get a faster drive :D

Actually the problem really lies in the fact that I don't speak Hard Drive. You see, my first job was programming binary load lifters, very similar to your vaporators, but unfortunately quite dissimilar to hard drives. So my asking Hard Drive what it wanted for its birthday amounted to me asking it and it saying "Whirr. Buzz. Click. Whirr." All I could tell was that it was happy and content with what it was doing. I got the same response from all 10 hard drives in my house.

Oh well. Maybe in 50 more years... :wink:

[bluemax]

Ah fond memories. Here are some stats -
The largest hard drive (physically not capacity) was made by RCA. Platters were 32 inches across and made of very flamable magnesium.

In the '80s I was working on mainframes. 1.6 GBytes took 40ft of floor space. Now we have hard drives with 1" platters that hold twice that.

Bill B

[MitchellO]

Maybe you need to get a faster drive :D

Actually the problem really lies in the fact that I don't speak Hard Drive. You see, my first job was programming binary load lifters, very similar to your vaporators, but unfortunately quite dissimilar to hard drives. So my asking Hard Drive what it wanted for its birthday amounted to me asking it and it saying "Whirr. Buzz. Click. Whirr." All I could tell was that it was happy and content with what it was doing. I got the same response from all 10 hard drives in my house.

Oh well. Maybe in 50 more years... :wink:

I'd be worried if my HDD went "Whirr. Buzz. Click. Whirr." :lol:

Just done binary in software design. Schools almost over!! Only 1010 days to go!