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- Hiker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Two words; more iPods.
- illt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28your weiner is the size of a quarter?
- britkev1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Its amazing how far we have come in the last 50 years. I wonder what we can look forward to in the next 50/
- venir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28It was probably filled with porn :P
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24ASCII Porn ftw!
- HunterKiller, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26Do you think it can run Linux? =)
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I bet there were people that said "5 megs! How could anyone EVER fill that up?"
- perkonis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19It holds 5 megs. How much storage could you possibly need?
- SgtBeavis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I've got a 305 RAMAC sitting just outside my office..
http://webpages.charter.net/rvboyett/305ramac.jpg
If you look closely, you'll see an ipod drive hanging inside the RAMAC's case for size comparison.
There is all kinds of cool computer history at my office. One of the reasons I digg working here :) - nayr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19I think I have one of those downstairs...
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Duke Nukem... I hope.
- goorioles747, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15what is that, a full tower ATX? :D
- drrlvn, on 01/18/2009, -5/+18No more than 640k, that's for sure...
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14It would have to be closer to a dime, now.
- escheppa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12sorry here is what Frink actually says
"Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don't touch
it, but I predict that within 100 years, computers will
be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive
that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them." - yournamehere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Does it make popcorn?
- HunterKiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Actually... a Compactflash card can carry 8GB now ;-)
- perkonis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yeah, I've often wondered how much power the old equipment used and how much heat was produced. That one unit probably makes a whole server farm look weak.
- rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+91 MP3
- Suplyndmnd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Dollars to Donuts that when it crashed, it took someone with it.
Probably more reliable now than the MacBook Pro. *zing!* - LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Yeah, but I'm STILL waiting for my holographic storage on a little cube. They promised us a library of congress on a cubic inch 6 years ago!
- benbread, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Igingras: Nice to see your sheer ignorance for the rest of the world and the proper usage of the English language and its variations. Believe it or not where i come from, and in the vast majority of the world it's called an Aeroplane, you know, aerodynamics, aeronautics...?
- HunterKiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Actually, 5 MB = 5,242,880 bytes.....
- Yez70, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10In 50 years - Google will come on a thumb drive.
That's Google's entire distributed database system, thousands of Terabytes of data - on your keychain. - nogoodreason, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Considering how few apps you could fit on it, it would probably be faster than your typical XP boot time.
- bill679, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9god, I would hate to get a seat next to the guy playing solitaire on that thing
- Tochi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Article? We don't need no stinking article!
- Awal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It looks like you could read the 1's and 0's on the disks ;)
- ModernTenshi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I think we've found the iPod killer.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"It was probably filled with porn :P"
Yeah. The whole drive was used to store a single bitmap of marylin monroe.
Little known fact: moore's law was actually originally stated in terms of number of pornographic images per hard disk. - trylleklovn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Shall we play a game...?"
- flarn2006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I don't think RAID setups would be that useful back then...
- escheppa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Haha this reminds me of the simpson where Prof. Frink is discussing the Frinky X7, and he predicts that "in 10 years computers will be twice as powerful and so expensive that only the 6 richest kings in Europe will own one."
- G8RR3TT, on 10/12/2007, -12/+17...probably the second coming of Jesus...
- glock22ownr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The computer is not the only thing thats history there... Pan Am is too...
- epu2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4what about quarks??
- FelixdaaHack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4And yet were using the same technology today...spinning disks and an electromechanical read/write head fluttering back and fourth...so sad...so sad
- ylph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How exactly do you make something rotate "towards a wall" ?
- cacapitol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The reason it only stored 5M is obviously because most of the room was reserved for the beer keg in the middle.
Beer...beer....the more you drink...The More You DRINK!!! - nogoodreason, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's really quite incredible how we managed to start out with something that big.
And people say iPod's are too heavy.... - smellinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah... caption: "In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC..."
And they show it being loaded into an airplane to be launched? - HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The forklift option shown in the picture was used for the laptop version. I'd hate to have the seat next to its owner.
- dborjal007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow...amazing how fast PCs have evolved in the last forty years!!!
- rsktkr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Does that come with an armband?
If not I'm going with the Nano! - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4That giant drum thing in the middle? That's the drive. They used to be drums, rather than disks.
- kd1s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I remember thinking I'd never have filled my 20MB drive. Ha! Now I can easily fill a couple hundred gig.
- Sibre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Only 20 times? For less than $20 I can get a drive 200 times that size and a little over the size of a fingernail. Technology has gone pretty nuts in the last few decades
- trollick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Imagine a beowulf cluster of these babies!
- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Once we get storage down to the photon level, I think we will have hit the limit.
- quarsaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don't touch it! But I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them."
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