2007 - Volume #31, Issue #2, Page #5
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The Early Days Of Computing
Nowhere has the wonder of invention paid more dividends than in the world of computing, as this news photo from 1956 illustrates. It shows a forklift hoisting a 2,000-lb. IBM 4.4 mb hard disk drive into an airplane. It consisted of a stack of 50 24-in. disks and you could lease one at the time for $35,000. To make ..........
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