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/RecentQuarter 16d ago

Where’s OSHA?

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u/duckweedlagoon 16d ago

This was in 1956. OSHA wasn't formed 1971. Obviously, they were still caught up in the forming committee 😉