In 1980, IBM's first gigabyte-class hard drive was roughly refrigerator-sized, weighed about 250 kilograms and sold for around $40,000.

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Today, a fingernail-sized memory card can hold hundreds of times as much. In four decades, storage moved from hardware delivered by forklift to something small enough to disappear in a drawer. The revolution was not one dramatic leap; it was thousands of refinements compounding until the old machine looked prehistoric.

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IBM’in 1980’de tanıttığı ilk gigabayt sınıfı sabit disk yaklaşık bir buzdolabı büyüklüğündeydi; 250 kilo kadar geliyor ve yaklaşık 40.000 dolara satılıyordu.

Bugün tırnak büyüklüğünde bir bellek kartı bunun yüzlerce katını saklayabiliyor. Kırk yıl içinde depolama, forkliftle taşınan bir donanımdan çekmecede kaybolabilecek kadar küçük bir parçaya dönüştü. Devrim tek bir büyük sıçrama değildi; eski makine tarih öncesinden kalmış gibi görünene kadar üst üste binen binlerce iyileştirmeydi.

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IBM 3380 (1980) was the first disk storage device to surpass 1 GB (1.26 GB per unit); refrigerator-sized, ~250 kg, ~$40,000. IBM archives.

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