Guess what this is

[evangilder]

See if you guys can guess what this is that they are loading onto this airplane.

 

[pbfoot]

Photo copier or Computer

 

[Glider]

My old laptop maybe?

 

[evangilder]

Close guys. I'll give it a bit more before revealing the identity of this groundbreaking device.

 

[trackend]

A winchester drive or my first colour TV

 

[evangilder]

I don't remember Winchester drives being that big!

 

[trackend]

Well I thought it may be a prototype Eric, sort of a Winchester Cathedral version

 

[k9kiwi]

Physical storge device.

Hard Disk for a main frame computer.

 

[evangilder]

This is a 4.4 Meg Hard Disk in 1956.

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 4.4MB of data.

 

[v2]

8)

 

[syscom3]

Good one Evans.

 

[Gnomey]

Good one Evans.

Yeah, just think how much data could be stored in a ton of HDD now...

 

[Matt308]

I was going to guess a microwave oven. Anyone ever seen one from the '50s. About that size.

 

[Screaming Eagle]

. I was going to say a generator but a hard drive for a computer makes more sense.