1TB of Storage in 1937

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vsoch July 26, 2019, 4:05pm 1

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This day and age, you can store 1TB on a microSD card. and read over 100MB per second. What would you need to store 1TB in 1937? Try the space taken up by almost 5.5 average size apartments in San Francisco! twitter.com/brianroemmele/… Yowza! #FridayFactoid https://t.co/ybOwkvPMBi

Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele

This was a 1TB hard drive in 1937. It was the largest vertical letter file in the world. 4000 SqFt. with over 3000 drawers 10 feet long managed by 20 workers. Access speed was ~3 minutes per KB. https://t.co/eMOI4vpBRw

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