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Haha, those don't even look like Hard drives, its weird to think they were that big not too long ago. Those thngs look big enough to pass as small motors (like for a weed wacker or something). However, I'm glad that today the size of computer compenents has decreased because it looks like those things would have a good some weight to them, they would be very unpractical, especially if they hgad tried to make a laptop from them. Other than that though, they look kind of nice, just very un...
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well, would love to have these hard disks in my pc, but what will be the size of my cuty laptop than????
I want to know if 3620rpm on the first one is the rotation speed of the outer cylinder or the inner cylinder or an avergae or something. Because if it's the outer cylinder, that's one slow hard drive.
lol....Man...Those are some OLD ass hard drives.
Thank god I'm not from china in the 1980's
hummmm.....
That0s really frustating.... we keep complaining because of the space.. the capacity... and people (not too many years ago) adapted themselves to suing those monstrous thing without complains... doing the best with what they had.... WHY ARE WE SO HARD TO PLEASE!!!
Who said they didn't complained
 .People are always looking for the best and they want the best, that's our nature
It's not just that they are from china, It's the thing that you in 1980's could never buy one. They were sooo expencive then...
How big are those in reality? Its hard to get a good idea of scale in those pictures.
Nice find man... that's amazing. Look how far we've come in 20 odd years. Could you imagine trying to install one of them babies in your PC? Hehehe, you would need a crane. And back then they probably would never have imagined having the hard drive capacity we have these days in such a small size.
Its Beautifull , i love it its like the old cars , an antique , its a PUNTIAC but in computers LOL, and very fast to
 where can i buy one of those ? Maybe they cost lost of money ... cheers Latest Entries
Haha, those don't even look like Hard drives, its weird to think they were that big not too long ago. Those thngs look big enough to pass as small motors (like for a weed wacker or something). However, I'm glad that today the size of computer compenents has decreased because it looks like those things would have a good some weight to them, they would be very unpractical, especially if they hgad tried to make a laptop from them. Other than that though, they look kind of nice, just very unefficient compared to the hard drives of today.
Haha, those don't even look like Hard drives, its weird to think they were that big not too long ago. Those thngs look big enough to pass as small motors (like for a weed wacker or something). However, I'm glad that today the size of computer compenents has decreased because it looks like those things would have a good some weight to them, they would be very unpractical, especially if they hgad tried to make a laptop from them. Other than that though, they look kind of nice, just very unefficient compared to the hard drives of today.
The first computer I ever worked on was an IBM 650 in 1958. (I don't remember the girls being that pretty, then
 ) The drum was something like 18 inches in diameter, and 2-2.5 feet long. Wikipedia reminds me that it had 2,000 signed 10-digit words of memory. All programming was done in Assembly language. I remember we considered it very advanced, because we didn't have to manually assign numeric addresses for variable locations. Even then, the CPU was much faster than the drum. The drum was so slow that the Assembly language was called SOAP, Symbolic Optimizing Assembly Program, and it actually worked out where to store the data and executable instructions on the drum so that the next instruction and data would be underneath the read head "just in time" for the CPU to use them. Today, that kind of problem is solved with caches.
Such ancient technology. It reflects how technology has evolved over time at an ever-increasing rate. We may see in the future hard disks being replaced from flash solid state drivers that have no mechanical parts at all.
That's a pretty big hard drive. It must have been built for mainframes back in the 1970s/1980s when mainframes were still around before clusters replaced them.
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