Y'know, as I sit here looking at a 24" monitor that cost the equivalent of 20 hours' salary, next to a computer with more memory than existed in the world in 1965, I have to say, in a way, I long for the days when technology was huge, ominous, and limited to the highly trained elite. I wish I wasn't writing PHP for web users to see pretty pictures, but rather C that generated bland text on green screens. I was born 25 years too late. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Jarvis To: plug Sent: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 6:39 pm Subject: (semi OT) For those that remember (and those that don't) Found on slashdot: Hardware: The 305 RAMAC — First Commercial Hard Drive Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 10, @03:15PM from the looking-back-for-perspective dept. Data Storage Captain DaFt writes "Snopes.com has an article that gives an interesting look back at the first commercial hard drive, the IBM 350. Twice as big as a refrigerator and weighing in at a ton, it packed a whopping 4.4MB! Compare that to the 1-4GB sticks that most of us have on our keychains today." --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss