April 13, 2007

Hard Drives - old and new

Seeing this huge 5MB hard drive being loaded into a plane in 1956 on TechEBlog puts modern technology into perspective. We think nothing of installing and using hundreds of gigabytes in our new computers. Or expect them to be small enough to fit onto our MP3 players. Will we look back 50 years from now and laugh at our “modern” miniature drives?