r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Uguero • 17d ago

of a storage unit

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In 1956, IBM shipped a 5MB hard drive... and it weighed over a ton. Yep, just 5 megabytes required a forklift and a cargo plane. Today, that's not even one iPhone photo.

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u/louloc 16d ago

I remember buying a 40mb (yes, mb) hard drive for my monochrome original Macintosh for $240 in 1990. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/TrannosaurusRegina 16d ago

Did you fill it up?