5MB IBM hard drive, 1956.

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This 5 MB hard drive required a team lift in 1956.

Actually, IBM could have made it 10MB, but their salesmen felt that 5MB was the most they could sell. A 10MB version finally came out in 1959. By the way, the monthly rent on this sucker was about the purchase price of a Buick.

Says a lot about the evolution of semi-conductors.

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