Bugsy Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 This photograph was taken in 1965.What is being loaded into the plane ?[IMG]http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/Bugbear2/HD.jpg[/IMG] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomad Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Could it be one of those new-fangled Gally's so that they could heat food etc? looks too big to be a Juke-Box even for 1965... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulcrum Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 OK. I'll have a guess. It's a magnetic drum storage unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share Posted February 11, 2007 Nomad..........................coldFulcrum........................warmish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulcrum Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 I seem to remember an old calculator that looked a bit like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share Posted February 11, 2007 Think storage again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suze01 Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 First on-board toilet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 An early computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 World's first iPod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share Posted February 11, 2007 Storage, think computer storage............................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 A giant drinks trolley? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 [quote user="Tay"]A giant drinks trolley?[/quote]That's an unfathomably abstract way of thinking of computer storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Hard disk. Was computer not good enough?I had already guessed, but if you do 'save as' the photo name was HD, so fairly obvious.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Mark, I had clicked on reply, then got distracted so didn't see Bugbear's response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share Posted February 11, 2007 HD Tay, that stands for Harley Davidson...............................[:D]It is a 5Mb Hard Drive, that you wouldn't want to carry around too far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Lovely-Wendy Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 5Gb HDD - is it to store the data from the first BlackBox size is because it used valves. pre-transistorisation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 [quote user="Tay"]Mark, I had clicked on reply, then got distracted so didn't see Bugbear's response.[/quote]Tay, only kidding, abstract is good. [:D]I thought gigabytes were invented in about 2003. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Its a hard disk in 1956.... The Volume and Size of 5MB memory storage in 1956. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data. Let us start appreciating your 4 GB jump drive![:D]http://www.popular-pics.com/pictures.aspx?photoid=422 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Worked by compressed air and cost £26,500, apparently... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 And is it a Boeing Stratocruiser Gary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted February 13, 2007 Author Share Posted February 13, 2007 Could be..........................................[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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