The 305 RAMAC \u2014 First Commercial Hard Drive<\/a><\/h3>\n \t \tPosted by \t \tScuttleMonkey<\/a> \ton Monday December 10, @03:15PM<\/strong>
\nfrom the looking-back-for-perspective<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\tCaptain DaFt<\/a> writes “Snopes.com has an article that gives an interesting look back at the first commercial hard drive<\/a>, the IBM 350. Twice as big as a refrigerator and weighing in at a ton, it packed a whopping 4.4MB! Compare that to the 1-4GB sticks that most of us have on our keychains today.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wow! The First Commercial HD was 4.4 MB and it weighed almost a ton? The 305 RAMAC \u2014 First Commercial Hard Drive Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 10, @03:15PM from the looking-back-for-perspective dept. Captain DaFt writes “Snopes.com has an article that gives an interesting look back at the first commercial hard drive, the IBM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfrom the looking-back-for-perspective<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\t\t \t\t \t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\tCaptain DaFt<\/a> writes “Snopes.com has an article that gives an interesting look back at the first commercial hard drive<\/a>, the IBM 350. Twice as big as a refrigerator and weighing in at a ton, it packed a whopping 4.4MB! Compare that to the 1-4GB sticks that most of us have on our keychains today.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow! The First Commercial HD was 4.4 MB and it weighed almost a ton? The 305 RAMAC \u2014 First Commercial Hard Drive Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 10, @03:15PM from the looking-back-for-perspective dept. Captain DaFt writes “Snopes.com has an article that gives an interesting look back at the first commercial hard drive, the IBM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n