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Forget the '50's. It would have blown my mind as a kid. If you told me there were more than 100 movies on something the size of a fingernail. And that they were higher quality than on my VHS tapes.

Without proof I never would have believed someone who even tried to tell me that.

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Yep -- a person in the 50s may not have even had enough context to be as blown away by this as someone who knew about hard drives.

My earliest memory of a hard drive capacity -- about 21 years ago -- is 130 MB (although that most certainly wasn't the upper limit). So you could have told me "This card is 1/2000th the size and has 1000 times the capacity."

2,000,000 times the data density! That's doubled almost 21 times!

I remember buying, with my father, a 5mb Corvus hard drive. It was amazingly huge compared to the ~70kbyte floppy drive. I was in awe of how many documents it could hold.

Seeing this is just amazing.

Yeah my first harddrive was a 5 megabyte drive running off the side expansion port of an Amiga 500 -- I was pretty sure there was no way I'd ever fill that drive up when I first got it.

That was an A590. It came with a 20mb XT drive that made an annoying squeaking noise whenever it did a seek operation, but also had a SCSI connector which I eventually hooked a Quantum 100mb drive to.

Mine wasn't an A590, I was too poor to afford that at the time. I had some knock-off third-party unit I bought at the "local" (not really local, but closest one to where I lived) Amiga store (Memory Location in Wellesley, MA).

Worked pretty well, as far as I can remember.

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