https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0hDorkxAPM
I just bought a bunch of 700MB CD-R's at Twice as Nice for $11.
Very true. So either he is backing up and has yet to turn around to load or he has just unloaded and has turned around and is still lowering. Either way it is a interesting picture.
If you enjoyed that you should also check out his articles on the Fermi Paradox and the current running series on Elon Musk and his companies.
60 years still is a glimpse of time in human history. Look at the photo. This probably were one of the few machines able to store 5MB of data in 1956. Look at what we have now. Doesn't matter if ...
You comment does not make sense, even in the "its funny cause its so stupid" category.
Excellent show. Very on point technically as well, just from my small about of knowledge.
But printers will still jam constantly.
1s and 0s were stored in vacuum tubes , so yep
Ladies and gentlemen...behold the world's first attempt at cloud storage.
Fast? That's a 60 year old photo. Fast is what the Germans were using on day one of WWII compared to the last year of it. Or how we went from the vic20 to the Macintosh in just a few years. Or ho...
Jeez. Could you see the individual 1's and 0's on that thing?
Sounds like my sex life.
That was a fascinating read, thanks
My dad is an engineer and he once told me that he spent $10,000 for a 10mb drive for one of his projects.
If you're thinking 'boy, we've come a long way,' just remember where they were only ten years earlier. The mess of valves and cables in a box called the Bombe in Bletchley Park was all we had.
I work in a warehouse and run forks a lot, the standard procedure is to drive backwards if you cant see over the top of whatever you're hauling, so yes you're right.
Great answer, truly motivating to try our best!
Have you checked out the show Halt and Catch Fire?
Maybe the forklift operator is blind. Or he could be new at his job, not knowing how to do it right.
Fool doesn't know how to position a skid steer
That pilot's a maverick, I tell ya.
probably just a photo-op with everything strategically grouped in the photo. then take a smoke break, lower the load, turn around, lift it, get directed in, and loaded by some other guys .
The universe doesn't care. And if it does, I'm sure it will have no difficulty getting rid of us.
I think Samsung still charges the same price per meg on Smartphone upgrades.
Don't I wish. Things changed so fast in those days it was difficult to make money, a sale of one of those drives was a nice week. Hundreds of small oddball-idea hardware and software companies ca...
DEC - Digital Equipment Corp. They were for their first PC's, and these were their first hard drives. They spun slowly, you could hear the mechanics as they operated. They stored 5 mb, they were ...
Would he drive facing forward? Can't see where you're going. I think forklifts typically drive in reverse if the load blocks their view.
Yes, but you can't load it like that with the lift in the way.
The forklift is facing away from the plane with the load elevated. You aren't supposed to maneuver a forklift with an elevated load, so It doesn't make sense either way. I am gonna go with "unloa...
It wouldn't have been shipping with data. The point would be to get it into a computer room where it could function as an intermediary cache between RAM and tape. Almost all data shipped back the...
And the struggle for storing all that anime will continue through future generations.
Yeah I was only introduced to this website a week or so ago but these two articles and the Fermi Paradox one just flabbergasted me, was genuinely in a daze for a while after finishing the 2nd par...
Corvis hard drives?
I know these articles, its quite the long read but it is very worth it if you want to learn something!
It ends with us either becoming immortal or extinct, probably within the next few decades. Enjoy :) http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html http://waitbutwhy.co...
So, you were like a technology drug dealer? Can I get a bulk price on a 15MB combo stack? Hook me up.
5 MB is 5,242,880 bytes, which can be thought of as letters. Assuming an average of 5 letter words that's 1,048,576 words. Which is about the entire Harry Potter series .
It would be about 40,000 punch cards which would be smaller, lighter, and cheaper. But this would not be used as storage but as swap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
I used to sell 5mb disks for $3000.00. Those were the days. (1983ish).
Progress to what? Where does progress end? Mars? Pluto? We can be parasites for the universe haha.
Any operator worth his salt wouldn't be traveling with a raised load. It's one of the first things you learn.
If the object is large enough to not see over or around in a safe manner you would need to go "backwards". This is not unusual at all.
Thumb drives will be called Atom drives.
Now try picture the memory storage of 2056.
Damn humanity's inbuilt drive to progress.
I believe they are "investing" in technology. Otherwise, we would be using books alone today.
Would the information contained within not be more easily transported in, say, a bunch of books?
Looking at this from my 64gb smart phone that just transmitted more data than that thing can eve hold... Crazy how fast technology has evolved.
Maybe the plane is in the wrong side.
yea...i guess youre right.
The forklift is facing the wrong way, you wouldn't reverse towards a plane like that.
Just a guess. From the direction the dolly operator is facing. He wouldn't be backing up to the plane only to turn around if he were loading it. While unloading he would back up a little to get c...
That would be unloading would it not?