Can you guess what it is they are loading onto the aircraft?

[Oldrottenhead]

Can you guess what it is they are loading onto the  aircraft?








Hint: The picture was taken in 1956...


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It is a 5 MB Hard Disk Drive   for the IBM 305 RAMAC, the first IBM 'SUPER' computer released in September 1956.


This  HDD weighed over a ton and stored an 'astonishing' (at the time) 5 MB  of data.

[64Guitars]

Cool! Enough capacity to hold one song in MP3 format. Or two copies of that photo. And you could lease the computer and hard drive for only $3,200 per month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOD1umMX2s8
IBM Promotional Video

[lg]

Awesome Photo Jim!
I never would have guessed....
And thanks 64 for posting that amazing vid!
What will it be like in another 50 years?

LG

[Oldrottenhead]

compact integrated construction lmao

[Gnasty]

Yeah i remember seeing that pic of the 5mb hard drive years ago.

Imagine if the people in that pic were still alive, they`d be telling their grandchildren the story just like we heard how our parents and grand parents walked 25 miles to school and back everyday.

Yeah sure granpa!...LOL