What 5MB of Storage Looked Like in 1956

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What 5MB of Storage Looked Like in 1956

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In September 1956, IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a ‘whopping’ 5 MB of data.
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