5 MB hard drive in 1956
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What would have happened if we just dropped a 20tb hard drive in front of the computer researchers of that time?
Nothing, they would have no idea what it was, or how to interface with it. They might even end up destroying it because they have no idea of the power requirements. Even if they managed to get it powered up and guessed at what it was for, they would still be stuck with the issue of not having an operating system which is capable of logically addressing all of the storage. And the lack of drivers would make that even harder.
A lot of modern technology sits atop a mountain of other modern technology which must be sorted out before you can even start to think about designing the end product. It could be that, since they knew what was possible, and had an example to crib off of, scientists and engineers could have gotten to that point faster. But, there is just an insane amount of prior tech in front of modern computers that any one piece of it, thrown back that far, would likely just be shiny junk.
The hard drive controller has a dual core cortex-r that was more powerful than all the computers in existence at the time.
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In a similar sense, this is one of my favorite historical photos. A nuclear reactor delivered by steam locomotive!
When was this taken?
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When was this taken?
I'm out and about right now so I can't look it up, but most likely during the 50s. The United States transitioned away from steam in the 50s and was largely transitioned to diesel by the early-mid-60s
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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.
I was in Turkiye a couple years ago and there was a crowd watching a construction site. Then again, watching big machines work actually is fascinating.
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What would that even be?
The spectacle and witnessing something revolutionary makes the person feel like they're a part of history. A modern equivalent is any time that happens. The article is irrelevant, whether it's a huge hard drive or an artificial heart or a robotic arm or a human dinosaur hybrid being loaded into a cargo crate doesn't matter.
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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 was definitely true in the 80s where I grew up
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I'm out and about right now so I can't look it up, but most likely during the 50s. The United States transitioned away from steam in the 50s and was largely transitioned to diesel by the early-mid-60s
Oddly the nuclear reactor has more in common with a steam locomotive than a diesel since they both generate power via steam.
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Oddly the nuclear reactor has more in common with a steam locomotive than a diesel since they both generate power via steam.
I almost added a joke about it being a photo of 2 steam power plants, but figured that might be a bit too obscure for [email protected]
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Someone please photoshop (or gimp) hundreds of people crowded around these fingers.
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RAID is still no replacement for a backup. Single drives are fine as long as you have automated backups and can handle the interruption when someone goes wrong.
The real world failure rate of single drives is just too high. A second drive makes bad days tolerably rare.
I'm down a lot longer while I pull everything back down my internet connection from the cloud than I am stuffing a new drive in an enclosure and letting it re-silver in the background.
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