5 MB hard drive in 1956
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You would be burned as a witch.
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Average size JavaScript file 2025.
In megabytes or in m^3^?
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Minimum 10 MB I'd say.
That's a bold assumption.
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It's doubled, we have 2 TB cards now
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Yes kids, before color TV was commonplace people would stand around and watch cargo get loaded for fun. It was a dark time in entertainment history.
Hey if someone told me I could go see the 2025 equivalent of this hard drive being unloaded if probably go take a look.
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This guy knows computers.
No, just hard drives.
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Average size JavaScript file 2025.
And that's after minifying it to oblivion for security and hackproofness
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Crazy how quickly technology can progress.
70 years is a long loooooooooooooooooong time for "technology"
Only recently! For the past 10,000 years a 70-year span would not see a single significant change.
(If I mix this up, someone correct me.)
I think it was at Olduvai, or somewhere in the Great Rift Valley, that hominids spent 600,000 years hammering out the same exact stone tools.
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Do you weigh more than a duck with an anvil?
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Little virgin blood and bat dung, that thing's hopping around eating people.
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What a bizarre method of loading! Had to look when forklifts were invented, turns out there were in common use during WWII. I'm not too hot of a driver, but throw that thing on a pallet and I'd have it in there is a minute flat.
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It's doubled, we have 2 TB cards now
If random source is to be trusted, it cost $34,500 in 1957. You could lease it for $3,200/month. The 2TB card is $180 in 2025.
Adjusted for 2025:
2TB MicroSD: $180
5MB HDD: $398,852.50 or $36,995.01/monthAdjusted for 1957:
2TB MicroSD: $15.70
5MB HDD: $34,500 or $3,200/month -
Imagine what a HDD of that size could store today.
At least one call of duty game, sick!
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Yes kids, before color TV was commonplace people would stand around and watch cargo get loaded for fun. It was a dark time in entertainment history.
This honestly just makes me wonder how chill a workday was if three whole buildings of office drones could empty into the streets to watch them load this for two hours.
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Printed circuit boards were becoming "commonplace" (according to Wikipedia), the transistor had been invented about 7 years before, and the hard drive was about to be invented in two years (without time-traveler help), so they'd probably be able to figure out at least conceptually what they were looking at. In other words, it's not as if it would seem like a magical rock etched with runes or something, like it would if you showed it to somebody from 1554.
Therefore, I think they'd get out a microscope and oscilloscope and start trying to reverse-engineer it. Probably speed up the development of computer technology quite a bit, by giving them clues on what direction to go.
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This honestly just makes me wonder how chill a workday was if three whole buildings of office drones could empty into the streets to watch them load this for two hours.
My brother in christ, you have no idea. The rise of the computer age and needing round the clock support for all that entails has really done a number on the working class. I am old enough to remember how chill work environments in the 80's and early 90's were. (Everyone smoking indoors sucked, though)
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Hey if someone told me I could go see the 2025 equivalent of this hard drive being unloaded if probably go take a look.
What would that even be?
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Hey if someone told me I could go see the 2025 equivalent of this hard drive being unloaded if probably go take a look.
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My brother in christ, you have no idea. The rise of the computer age and needing round the clock support for all that entails has really done a number on the working class. I am old enough to remember how chill work environments in the 80's and early 90's were. (Everyone smoking indoors sucked, though)
I considered editing my comment to reference the rampant secondhand smoke.
But yeah I just interviewed for a position with an on-call rotation. I asked them about sleeping hours, and then I asked them about attendance expectations in the face of a midnight emergency. They just blinked at me.
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But of trivia about the first IBM hard drive: the heads weighed about 8g each and were glued to the actuator arms. The platters needed periodic cleaning, but the cleaning agent dissolved the glue holding the heads. The heads would break free from the arms and adhere to the platter. The rotation speed would accelerate the head outward, and the head would exit the housing with the approximate kinetic energy of a 9mm bullet.
