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/zzen11223344 16d ago

I do not think this is actually a hard disc drive. In 1956, it is a magnetic core memory / storage.

Magnetic-core memory - Wikipedia

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u/Chaneera 16d ago

It's a disk. IBM 350. Introduced in '56.

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u/Few-Issue-5010 16d ago

Yes, this photo was in Bogotá (Colombia) and the buyer was the Republic Bank of the Nation. The year is 1956 in fact.