[ale] OT - Portable Drive

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Here's IBM's page on the device which includes a pretty good picture of 
the head assembly:
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html

Perhaps more startling is to think that the first available hard disks 
for PC usage were 10MB.  I had a dual unit, from TallGrass Technologies 
(amazingly, they are still in business), and let me tell you, having 
20MB of storage on a single little PC was the cat's ass.  We really did 
not know what to do with that much storage.  We had mini-computers 
running whole medium sized businesses with a single 9.6MB hard drive.

Can't hardly load a browser in that much storage these days...

Robert Reese wrote:
> Hmmm.... just a little something to make you appreciate that 512MB usb thumbdrive you get for Christmas a little more (help cover up that groan).
>
> http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/storage.asp
>
> ;c)
>
> Robert~
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