The million dollar hard drive in a Ford pickup · Proposed air date:
For the hard drive’s fiftieth anniversary, Dr. Dave remembers managing an apartment complex for a retired IBM engineer. A massive cooler on the man’s 1973 Ford pickup came from an early hydraulic disk system whose thirty pound head assemblies required elaborate cooling, filled roughly a five foot cube, cost about a million dollars and stored ten megabytes.
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Proposed recording date: 2006-09-16. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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