The Miracle Harddrive
It is hard to believe that this is the 50th Anniversary of the harddrive -- but that is only because I grew uo with them, and now I am old!
I first saw a harddrive in 1968 on a government computerthat I was charged with programming...and I owned my first harddrive in 1980 -- a 5 MB Apple Profile that set me back $3,000 and change. My wife let me buy one of the first ones because tired of hunting all over the house for Apple floppys...and I assured her that I could NEVER fill up a 5 MB harddrive!
(Actually, I was right...the damn thing crashed, taking with it several books I was writing. That was my first introduction to "backing up"...)
Now we are working on the Terrabyte size hard drive, costing almost nothing.
Harddrives are the miracle of science -- a mechanical/electronic device that works on tiny, tiny tolerances and still performs for years! The hybrid harddrive is amongst us as we go toward the solid-state-only device, but for now more than 50 years the harddrive has more than held it's own, and cheaply in a highly competitive market.
I first saw a harddrive in 1968 on a government computerthat I was charged with programming...and I owned my first harddrive in 1980 -- a 5 MB Apple Profile that set me back $3,000 and change. My wife let me buy one of the first ones because tired of hunting all over the house for Apple floppys...and I assured her that I could NEVER fill up a 5 MB harddrive!
(Actually, I was right...the damn thing crashed, taking with it several books I was writing. That was my first introduction to "backing up"...)
Now we are working on the Terrabyte size hard drive, costing almost nothing.
Harddrives are the miracle of science -- a mechanical/electronic device that works on tiny, tiny tolerances and still performs for years! The hybrid harddrive is amongst us as we go toward the solid-state-only device, but for now more than 50 years the harddrive has more than held it's own, and cheaply in a highly competitive market.
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