[ale] OT - Portable Drive

[Scott Castaline]

List wrote:
> 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)
>>
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I noticed that all models were withdrawn on Aug 18, 1969, about the same 
time as the Woodstock Festival, as in the original Woodstock Festival, 
not the carbon copy. Both events happening in NY. Hmmm white shirt, 
black tie,,,, all kinds of drugs and music. Coordinated or coincidental 
events?