The first disk drives

There is a photo gallery at
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-31979-1.html

showing the first hard disk drives. My, how far we've come in terms of storing data.

50 of these platters could hold 2 iTunes songs.


There is more info HERE on a Yahoo news site (original article from PC World). (Thanks, Michael, for passing this on).

The original pricing:

Prices have dropped dramatically. The RAMAC 305's cost per megabyte was approximately $10,000--that's about $70,000 in today's value. Today, a typical desktop hard drive can deliver that same megabyte for 3/100 of a cent.

Notice that's $/meg.