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IBM announced the world’s first HDD, the 3.75MB RAMAC 350 disk storage unit, 69 years ago today — unit weighed more than a ton, 50 platters ran at 1,200 RPM (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] the_citizen@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

From those huge machines to microSDs with terabytes. Now we're discussing AI models and quantum computing. Wondering what we'll see in future.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 0 points 19 hours ago

.... I've got a bad feeling that someone will be seeing it but it won't be human.