Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/September 13

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Today in 1956 the world’s first commercial hard disk drive was shipped. Advances in the development of hard disk drives have made long-term data storage capacity exhibit the fastest growth of all the basic elements of a computer system. This made storage so incredibly cheap that most people fail to imagine the scale and enabling potential of today’s data storage capacities.


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