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History: 5MB Hard Disk from 1956

April 12th, 2007        

Did you know that hard disk were the size of cargo container when it first comes out? Yeah, the picture above is taken in the year 1956. Disks with multi-million byte capacity have been used since 1956, long before there were standard binary prefixes.

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