It’s a hard drive with a storage of 5 megabytes.

in r2cornell •  2 years ago 

This huge box is not any big machine or computer that is being transported from one place to another with the strength of over 4 people involved.

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It’s a hard drive with a storage of 5 megabytes. That amount of storage and such enormous size of the hard drive! This storage was leased for $3,000 a month by the company that is equivalent to $30,000 today.

In contrast to this, we can carry more than 32 gigabytes on our phones daily. While 5 MB of IBM storage could only hold around 6 photos, that would not be quite helpful in the present generation of unlimited selfies at one time.

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