r/AbsoluteUnits 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/zippytiff 13d ago

Quick store a picture on it