Anonymous2: I remember those; they were REALLY hard drives. Hard to get up to speed, hard to slow down, and hard to stop them crashing through the side of the cabinet when they had a head crash.... In those days the equivalent of a USB memory stick was a stack of ten or a dozen of the disks that can just be seen through the clear bits of the casing and they weighed a lot, which was why all techies had arms like gorillas in those days. On the plus side, civil servants didn't go round leaving them on trains......
artanis: I think the non-issue with leaving gigs of data on the trains was due in part to the fact that when they went on trains they were shipped in crates, rather than carried on in a pocket. :/
Anonymous4: Yup, The Big one is 4 megaBits and the small one is most likely 4 Gigsbits. I used to program a IBM 1401 with punch-cards. And yes this dates me fairly well, sigh.......
Anonymous5: Oops, I guess the small one is only 1 gig, Didn't blowup the image first. But its irrelevant any way. Soon we will all be chipped when we are born & this chip will have our complete life data on it.
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