[BITList] Computer hard drive (a BIG one).

[John Feltham]

From one of my correspondents, who lives in Papua New Guinea!

> Glad digital photography happened when it did and not 50 years earlier.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/tech-time-warp-ibm-ramac/?cid=16574524
 
I can recall coming home one evening and telling my wife that I would never need to buy another HD for the rest of my life! 

This would have been around 1990.

It was a 20 Mb HD.


ooroo

The palest ink is more reliable than the strongest memory.

Chinese Proverb.




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