Pictorial history of storage media -- Boing Boing Gadgets

Posted by Cory Doctorow, April 8, 2008 9:10 AM |
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Joel posts a link to a pictorial history of storage media -- these behemoths roamed the prehistorical jungles when a kilobyte was a kilobyte and we were damned grateful for it.

You know we love the retro tech around these parts, so it is impossible to resist Royal Pingdom's collection of now-ancient computer storage technology, like this Selectron vacuum tube that could hold up to a full 512 bytes of data when plunged directly into the exposed brain of a screaming test subject.
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Take a look at this
#1 posted by arto , April 8, 2008 10:26 AM

Sweet Sphaghetti Monster, lookit the size of that thing! Makes the pair of 6AV6es in my guitar amp look positively liliputian...

Take a look at this
#2 posted by arto , April 8, 2008 10:27 AM

Or if I may rephrase myself, "Great googa-mooga! Look at its jaw!"

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