Digital Home Thoughts: Happy Birthday to the Hard Drive!

"Today, the hard drive is found everywhere--from the PCs we use daily to MP3 players and memory keys so small you can toss them in your pocket and forget you're carrying around a hard drive. But when the hard drive was first introduced on September 13, 1956, it required a humongous housing and 50 24-inch platters to store 1/2400 as much data as can be fit on today's largest capacity 1-inch hard drives. Back then, the small team at IBM's San Jose-based lab was seeking a way to replace tape with a storage mechanism that allowed for more-efficient random access to data. The question was, how to bring random-access storage to business computing?"



Everyone, please join me in wishing the Hard Drive a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! :new-bday: It is with the Hard Drive's hard work and dedication that Digital Media Thoughts is what it is right now. It is clearly very good at what it does, and it shows in the digital media it I/Os. Thanks, Hard Drive for all that you have done. Have a very happy birthday! I would give you a link to its Amazon wishlist, but so far it hasn't responded to my inquiries on the subject.