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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WouldbeWanderer on 2024-12-21 02:18:42+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1956, IBM released it's first "hard drive" called RAMAC—short for Random Access Method of Accounting And Control—which held less than 5 megabytes of storage and occupied an entire room. RAMAC was leased for $3,200 a month, the equivalent of $28,000 in 2016.

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