{"id":10609,"date":"2006-12-11T14:59:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T21:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/12\/11\/not-exactly-suitable-for-your-pocket.html"},"modified":"2006-12-11T14:59:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T21:59:32","slug":"not_exactly_suitable_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/not_exactly_suitable_for.html","title":{"rendered":"Not exactly suitable for your pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"5Mb hard drive in 1956\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/5MB-HDD-1956.jpg\" width=\"385\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Margie has an 80Gb iPod that&#8217;s smaller than a package of cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>I have a 1Gb chip in my cell phone the size of a dime.<\/p>\n<p>People carry around 2Gb thumb drives and use them as key fobs and neckaces.<\/p>\n<p>But back in 1956, a <strike>5Mb<\/strike> <em>4.4Mb<\/em> drive (an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_350\" target=\"_blank\">IBM 350 disk system<\/a> for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/ibm\/history\/exhibits\/storage\/storage_PH0305.html\" target=\"_blank\">IBM 305 RAMAC<\/a>) was &#8230; not quite as convenient to use.  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