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Don Baer

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Hint: picture was taken in 1956...
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It's a hard disk drive back in 1956... with 5 MB of storage.

 

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Don Baer said:
How about punch cards. When I was in college we used the oonly computer on canpas for our physics classes and it used punch cards and it ran on fortran...:eek::rofl::rofl::rofl:
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When I was in college we didn't use punched cards... but there still was a punch card machine in the terminal room, and my buddy and I figured out how to work it, so we punched out a bunch of cards, collected all the chads (It amounted to only about 3"x3"x1" in volume) and scattered them around a girls' dorm room. It was beautiful, way better than toilet paper. They were still finding those things months later. :rolleyes:
 
I worked for TWA from the 1965 until 1976... we shipped a lot of computers out of the Bay area.. Silicon Valley... the controlers looked like 25 cu.ft. refridgerators and the disc drives were about the size of a washing machine... we could put two controllers and 4 disc drives in an aircraft pallet.

Later while working for a forwarder in Sunnyvale, we shipped the computer that Scotland yard bought from Amdahl... it took a 40 foot container to load all the components...
 
And to think 'In the early 1940s, IBM's president, Thomas J Watson, reputedly said: "I think there is a world market for about five computers."'
 
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