Computer and computer parts from the past (pictures)

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First picture of the series of computer history (please add more to the thread)....

Hard disk drive with 5 MB storage in 1956.

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

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And at some point (1970s) the hard drives had already got much smaller... :D

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This was for a 30 MB drive...
 
Check this satirical video about communication at CERN made in 1974. The presenter is a friend of mine and they were supposed to be making a serious video but they ended up doing this instead. Some good old tech too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OymJC9KkWlg

EDIT - the guy checking computation by hand was a genuine savant style genius, he apparently worked out soemthing like the 17th root of a 250 digit number on a blackboard in front of his colleagues once.
 
The Idiots at YouTube . . . I know . . . redundant . . . have removed your audio for "copyright."

--J.D.

P.S. But if yo follow the annoying link to the "original" you will get it.
 
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And a classic from the past (at least for anyone who's looked at Newton developer CDs) - modemino - too much time in the hands and graphical video editing effects from the past. I wouldn't mind trying that at home but considering how impossible even finding a plain Connection Kit was.. not going to happen :D
 
Sadly that was the only copy i knew of, it was uploaded by the guy that filmed it but I think they must have used a pop track as part of the soundtrack. :(
 
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