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| + | ...that as much as 10 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte exabytes] of information will be created in 2006 on print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media. | ||
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| + | ...that 1,000 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte exabytes] equals 1 '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte zettabyte]''' and that 1,000 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte zettabytes] equals 1 '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte yottabyte]'''? | ||
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| - | ...that in September 1956, IBM announced the first commercial disk drive, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAMAC RAMAC 305], with 5MB of capacity on fifty 24-inch diameter platters. The RAMAC | + | ...that in September 1956, IBM announced the first commercial disk drive, inside the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAMAC RAMAC 305] computer system, with 5MB of capacity on fifty 24-inch diameter platters. The RAMAC 350 disk unit was priced at $7,800 per megabyte. |
Current revision as of 02:59, 15 December 2006
...that as much as 10 exabytes of information will be created in 2006 on print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media.
...that 1,000 exabytes equals 1 zettabyte and that 1,000 zettabytes equals 1 yottabyte?
...that a googol is a number equal to a 1 followed by 100 zeros and expressed 10100? This concept was introduced by U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner (1878-1955).
...that in September 1956, IBM announced the first commercial disk drive, inside the RAMAC 305 computer system, with 5MB of capacity on fifty 24-inch diameter platters. The RAMAC 350 disk unit was priced at $7,800 per megabyte.
