r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Uguero • 17d ago

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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/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/LarsDuder 16d ago

"After looking at RAM, clock speed, program storage space, and a few other components, Heller concluded that today's USB-C chargers are more or less 563 times faster than the Apollo computer."

Our phones are getting beaten by their chargers! 🫪

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u/Earl_Silverwood 16d ago

Our chargers are beating their rocket computers, Bud.

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u/randomdarkbrownguy 15d ago

They're a bit confused but they've got spirite!