In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/24/2007
at 10:43 AM, Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>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 5MB
>of data.
How do you figure? Wasn't that 10 digits * 60 words * 10,000 tracks,
for a grand total of 6,000,000 digits?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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