Astonishing Tech Facts to Blow your Mind
5 Megabytes Of Data Actually Weighed a Ton
This was the first predecessor of a hard disk in 1956 and the Volume/Size of 5MB memory storage weighed about a ton. In September 1956, IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, which was the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). In the mid-20th century, prognosticators tried to imagine what life would be like in the 21st century, they often envisioned a world in which computers were large, powerful and few massive machines that controlled all sorts of functions from centralized locations.
Instead, what we have today are large numbers of increasingly smaller and cheaper computers distributed along networks, many of them dedicated to handling specialized tasks.
