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Re:A 1970s Cray-1 hard drive has been imaged by ordinary on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @07:27AM (#2969152)
Why pleasantly surprising?
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Re:A 1970s Cray-1 hard drive has been imaged by ericHosick on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @09:33AM (#2969427)
Because it is usually things like we have 1000x faster such and such and 100x smaller since such and such a time. This brings home that there were amazing technological advances even in the 70's worth noting. Sure we have SSD's now and so on. But, ya. Just kinda cool to see.
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