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    Mar202010

    Image - What 200MB looked like in 1973

    My oh my, how far we have come - that's what you are thinking while looking at this. 200MB, that's just enough space for your high school video project, or under 70 hi-res photos. This is an IBM 3336 Disk Pack from 1973 code-named Merlin. Access time was around 30 ms and data transferred at a blistering 806 kB/s and it was in use for 10 years. Sadly in 1983, Merlin was dis-continued and now its only resting place is Wikipedia. (Manly tears) - so sad...

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