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They are that cheap now?
In any case, happy birthday HD? ]]>Sep 14th 2006 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/
happy birthday Hard Drive]]>Sep 14th 2006 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/Sep 14th 2006 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/
Also, Tupac "died" today.]]>Sep 14th 2006 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/Sep 14th 2006 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/Sep 14th 2006 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/IBM RAMAC 305, the computer that introduced disk storage technology to the world on September 4, 1956. The IBM 355 was announced on September 14, 1956. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_IBM_disk_storage
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"Invented by IBM researchers in San Jose, Calif., and unveiled to customers on September 13, 1956, the first commercial disk drive, called RAMAC,"
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Today, a 300GB hard drive can be had for $80 ($0.27 per GB). That is 60 times more storage space for about 1.6% of the cost. Of course if you need LOTS of storage space, 750GB drives can now be had for about $330.]]>Sep 14th 2006 1:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/Sep 14th 2006 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/Sep 14th 2006 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/Sep 14th 2006 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/Sep 14th 2006 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/Sep 14th 2006 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/
These drives were large rotating drums and the frames would have to be bolted to the floor, due to the forces created by such a heavy object spinning so quickly. It was important to remember to install the drives next to a wall and to make sure the drum rotated towards the wall -- that way if the bolts failed the drive would throw itself into the wall and not into the middle of the room.

Addendum - I posted the above to another story and, being the Internet, got a smart ass reply concerning how one "points" a rotating drum towards the wall. A rotating drum has centrifugal force and it was important to make sure that said force would throw the drive into the wall, not the middle of the room (where people sometimes stand).]]>Sep 14th 2006 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://klabs.org/history/build_agc/]]>Sep 14th 2006 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/Sep 14th 2006 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/13/hard-drives-turn-50-today/Sep 15th 2006 4:06AM