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September 23, 2007

Evolution of memory – 1GB 20 years ago and 1GB now

by Dhiram Shah


The above pic shows a 20 year old IBM hard drive which looks more like a car’s radiator and weighs around 32kgs and next to it is a 1GB SD card.
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  1. Mr Smith

    I think it’s the IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Device introduced in June 1980. It used new film head technology and had a capacity of 2.52 gigabytes with a data …
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_IBM_disk_storage

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