What are they loading onto the airplane?

By Edward Brown; posted March 2, 2009

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It's a hard disk. This photo was taken in 1956...

In September 1956, IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data.

Start appreciating your 8 GB memory stick!

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