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Revision as of 23:27, 31 January 2007
...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.