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5 MB hard drive in 1956 (infosec.pub)
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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Yes kids, before color TV was commonplace people would stand around and watch cargo get loaded for fun. It was a dark time in entertainment history.

[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hey if someone told me I could go see the 2025 equivalent of this hard drive being unloaded if probably go take a look.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

[–] recursiveInsurgent@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Someone please photoshop (or gimp) hundreds of people crowded around these fingers.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What would that even be?

[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Server rack with a couple of PBs worth of drives in it would probably match the physical size. Or a massive tape archive storage.

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The spectacle and witnessing something revolutionary makes the person feel like they're a part of history. A modern equivalent is any time that happens. The article is irrelevant, whether it's a huge hard drive or an artificial heart or a robotic arm or a human dinosaur hybrid being loaded into a cargo crate doesn't matter.

[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This honestly just makes me wonder how chill a workday was if three whole buildings of office drones could empty into the streets to watch them load this for two hours.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My brother in christ, you have no idea. The rise of the computer age and needing round the clock support for all that entails has really done a number on the working class. I am old enough to remember how chill work environments in the 80's and early 90's were. (Everyone smoking indoors sucked, though)

[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I considered editing my comment to reference the rampant secondhand smoke.

But yeah I just interviewed for a position with an on-call rotation. I asked them about sleeping hours, and then I asked them about attendance expectations in the face of a midnight emergency. They just blinked at me.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Good luck to you man. I went through that for a long time but those days are behind me now.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

The invention of clocks ruined the workday as well.

[–] pneumatron@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

I was in Turkiye a couple years ago and there was a crowd watching a construction site. Then again, watching big machines work actually is fascinating.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Tbh they could be waiting for the path to clear so they could get past

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

This was definitely true in the 80s where I grew up