What is this?

[machavez00]

If you have not seen this already, can you guess what it is?
http://a410.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/66/l_2080ddb7ca056472fb83ad004a471061.jpg


http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_PH0350A.html
The IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit was rolled out in 1956 to be used with the IBM 305 RAMAC to provide storage capacities of five, 10, 15 or 20 million characters.(MB) It was configured with 50 magnetic disks containing 50,000 sectors, each of which held 100 alphanumeric characters.

[Cholly]

Aww, c'mon - it's an IBM RAMAC disk storage unit. I remember those babies in our computer center eons ago. :D By the wa, I didn't look at the spoiler until after I composed this (but before I submitted it without editing :lol: )

[Richard King]

My, how things have changed. :lol: I wish I had pictures of the "computer room" when I took a Fortran class at the University of Minnesota in about 1970 or so.

[BobaBird]

I didn't have to guess after reading part of the spoiler in the hover text of the link to this thread.

[4DThinker]

Obviously portable. ;-)

[Greg Alsobrook]

i love seeing pics of old computers like that (and their capabilities)...

kinda crazy...

[spartanstew]

I read the spoiler and still don't know what it is.

[machavez00]

I read the spoiler and still don't know what it is.

the first 5MB HDD

[machavez00]

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/video/storage1_high.rm
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/images/PH0305.jpg

[Nick]

My notebook is getting heavier and heavier -- it's all the bits & bytes in my special
photo album. Do .jpg's weigh way more than (not then) .gif's?

Mebbe I need a forklift too.

I'm just sayin' :shrug:

[Stuart Sweet]

It's a plane.

[dave1234]

My, how things have changed. :lol: I wish I had pictures of the "computer room" when I took a Fortran class at the University of Minnesota in about 1970 or so.


Me too. That Fortran class convinced me to stick with EE and never touch CS. :) :) At the time debugging intervals were spaced 1 day apart. You got once chance per day to run your deck of cards thru the machine...

[EXTACAMO]

Wonder what E* would charge to activate it?:lol: