The hard drive at 50

[FreewheelinFrank]

The hard drive is 50!

One of the first drives weighed 250kg and could store a couple of MP3 tunes, apparently, although that might have been a little too heavy to put in your back pocket. The discs seem to have been made by some bloke pouring magnetic gloop onto a spinning disc. I think they probably recruited him from a pancake shop.

Pictures:

http://content.zdnet.com/2346-9595_22-31979-4.html

Video:

http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6113819.html

[essexboy]

Winchester drives - sad I remember them

[bob3160]

Winchester drives - sad I remember them

If it makes you feel better, so do I...

[neal62]

Heck, I'm too young to remember them. 

[DavidR]

Hard drives were a figment of the imagination, 8086 processor 64 Kilobytes of memory (not Megabytes) and Twin 5¹/₄" floppy drives absolute top dog in its day and very, very expensive. My first Hard Disk was 512MB and they told me I would never fill it, which was correct for about 2 years, then I was using on the fly compression software to cram two pints into my 1 pint pot.

Ahh those were the days (not)