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"IT WOULD BE ENOUGH FOR US" 13TH SEP,1956
On Sept. 13, 1956, IBM shipped the first unit of the RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) and set in motion a process that would change the way we live.
The RAMAC, designed in Big Blue's San Jose, Calif., research center, is the ultimate ancestor of that 1.8-inch drive that holds 7,500 songs inside your pocket-size $299 iPod. Of course, the RAMAC would have made a lousy music player. The drive weighed a full ton, and to lease it you'd pay about $250,000 a year in today's dollars. Since it required a separate air compressor to protect the two moving "heads" that read and wrote information, it was noisy. The total amount of information stored on its 50 spinning iron-oxide-coated disks--each of them a pizza-size 24 inches--was 5 megabytes. That's not quite enough to hold two MP3 copies of Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog
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YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THINGS IN REFERENCE TO THE CONTEXT. YOU CANNOT COMPARE THE VALUE OF A CAR IN PREVIOUS YEARS WITH CURRENT YEAR VALUE
. I HAVE PURCHASED CULTUS IN 624K IN APRIL 08 AND NOW I HAVE SOLD OUT IN 775 LAST MONTHS. I HOPE YOU WILL UNDERSTAND.
REGARDS