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Created by doggie > 9 months ago, 28 Feb 2013
doggie
WA, 15849 posts
28 Feb 2013 3:05PM
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this-



byf
WA, 518 posts
28 Feb 2013 3:09PM
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Its the best one of them i have ever seen.

Macroscien
QLD, 6809 posts
28 Feb 2013 5:35PM
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At least I know now what hdd stands for
heavy disk drive

dusta
WA, 2940 posts
28 Feb 2013 4:35PM
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looks like qantas's inflight system to me

Pitbull
WA, 1267 posts
28 Feb 2013 6:04PM
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The latest state-of-the-art coffee machine made in that year.

FormulaNova
WA, 15106 posts
28 Feb 2013 6:58PM
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GalahOnTheBay said...
A computer hard disk drive from 1956 made by IBM with a storage capacity of 5mb

http://lazytechguys.com/news/flashback-friday-a-5mb-hard-disk-in-1956/

It's cheating I know but Google images ftw [}:)]


Despite the source saying it is a 'disk' drive, I suspect its not. Apparently once upon a time, they actually had drum drives, which were meant to be short-term storage.

Sure looks more like a drum than a disk pack.

Then again, I could be wrong.

edit: It looks like I am! It does appear to be a disk drive.

elmo
WA, 8896 posts
28 Feb 2013 8:12PM
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Cargo

Macroscien
QLD, 6809 posts
28 Feb 2013 10:23PM
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Autopilot ?
A.D 1956

westhammer
WA, 507 posts
28 Feb 2013 8:35PM
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Thats the setting up of a Chem trail fing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GypsyDrifter
WA, 2371 posts
28 Feb 2013 9:23PM
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GalahOnTheBay said...
A computer hard disk drive from 1956 made by IBM with a storage capacity of 5mb



mmm..bl@@dy old when you know what it is!

Buster fin
WA, 2599 posts
28 Feb 2013 10:42PM
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Looks like UWA's mainframe of 30 years ago.

sn
WA, 2775 posts
28 Feb 2013 10:55PM
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I have to laugh though,
it would have been worth megabucks back then
(even now- as a collectors item it would be worth a lot)

and its tied onto a forklift with what looks like baling string

stephen

myusernam
QLD, 6160 posts
1 Mar 2013 8:11AM
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bah hard drives! I used to work on a system with ferrite core memory!.. the next system after that used shift registers (jk flip flops) 8 bit words.\
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory

evlPanda
NSW, 9207 posts
1 Mar 2013 6:01PM
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It can store about 10 ebooks! Just in that disk!
or ~20% of Angry Birds.

Stubbies
WA, 1126 posts
2 Mar 2013 8:57AM
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Buster fin said...
Looks like UWA's mainframe of 30 years ago.



Thanks for the nostalgia trip, I used to play "Asteroids" for hours on that thing...



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