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Above left: A 250 MB hard disk drive from 1979. Above right: The IBM 3380 from 1980, the first gigabyte-capacity hard disk drive. Above left: A Laserdisc next to a regular DVD. Above right: Another Laserdisc. LOL we have come along way More Here...


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Above left: A 250 MB hard disk drive from 1979. Above right: The IBM 3380 from 1980, the first gigabyte-capacity hard disk drive.

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Above left: A Laserdisc next to a regular DVD. Above right: Another Laserdisc.
LOL we have come along way
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Is this a wind up or is that hard drive really as big as a man...
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I was thinking the same thing Dave, asuming this is true, those things are huge
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Looks at his Eee Laptop.

Thank God things have shrunk a bit!
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Have been digging into computer and computergame history for years now but never came across this... Must be a hoax

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OK... 2 mins of serching on the internet revealed the following:

"The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Device was introduced in June 1980. It used new film head technology and had a capacity of 2.52 gigabytes with a data transfer rate of 3 megabytes per second. Average access time was 16 ms. Purchase price at time of introduction ranged from $81,000 to $142,200. Due to problems encountered, the first units did not ship until October, 1981."

"In 1977 three Japanese companies - Sony, Mitsubishi, and Hitachi, demonstrated their optical digital audio disk (DAD) systems which used large disk, about 30 cm in diameter (like the LP records). By 1978, Philips developed a much smaller version of DAD. It used disks with a diameter of only 11.5 cm. After some negotiations, a compromise was reached and the modern CD was born with a diameter of 12 cm and with 74 minutes of play-back time. This is the approximate length of a Beethovens Ninth Symphony."

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1GB 20 years ago and 1GB now


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And thats not as small as 1GB gets... The mini SD cards are tiny.
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I have a 2gb mini sd. Looking for a decent priced 4gb (if there is such a thing) to put in my mp3.

I just like this pic so I'm posting it here

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