It’s crazy to think that this is a hard disk drive back in 1956… With 5 MB of storage.

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first “SUPER” computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a “whopping” 5 MB of data.

Do you appreciate your 16 GB memory stick a little more now? Even my iphone has 16 gigs of memory!