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/Happy_dadpete 17d ago

Jesus Christ we’ve come a long way

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u/Phenomenal_Hoot 17d ago

No joke. There was a time powerful computers took up a whole ass big room. Now the phone you’re looking at this on is like 100x those computers.

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u/0w0whatisthis 16d ago

More like x10000000000