IBM
Portable Hard Drive
24/06/10 14:57
From the IBM Memory Hole comes this :
That is an IBM 350. It is an IBM hard drive from 1956, and it holds the equivalent of roughly two MP3s. It needed a forklift to move it (weight : over a ton!), and it could be leased - not bought - from IBM for $3,200 per month. In relative terms, that was a middle-class salary for a year at the time. Contrast that with your laptop, iPod, or iPhone, both in terms of cost and storage.
We’ve come a long, long way.
