7th January 2025 - Castle Features

Thought for the day :"I used to be in a band called "The Hinges". We opened for “The Doors.”"

Wet  

2025 : Wet 6 : Dry 1

Another pyjama day for most of the time though I did get into proper trousers and top to go Beulah to get bags of Poultry Layers, Growers, Mixed Corn, and Cat Kibble for the Peacocks - £50.39 (!!)

Thought I would put that down for posterity. With price rises as they are - we may look at that in a couple of years and think "Why was it so cheap!"

Took no photos today so thought I would look at the before and after of the Castle Towers

Quite pleased really 

Not so much to finish the job off 

Just need a little energy 

In other news 

In 1956, IBM introduced a groundbreaking innovation: the 5MB hard drive. This was a revolutionary advancement in data storage, offering an unprecedented capacity for its time. Housed in a massive cabinet, the IBM 305 RAMAC hard drive weighed over a ton and was about the size of a refrigerator, yet it could hold the equivalent of 5 megabytes of data—an amount that seems minuscule by today's standards but was a monumental leap forward in computing.

The 5MB IBM hard drive was a key component of the IBM 305 RAMAC, one of the first computers to use a hard disk for data storage. Prior to this, data had to be stored on punched cards or magnetic tapes, which were much slower and less reliable. The hard drive allowed for quicker access to data, transforming how businesses could store and retrieve information, laying the foundation for the future of computing.

Though large and costly by today's standards, the 5MB IBM hard drive marked the beginning of the digital storage revolution. It demonstrated the potential for computer data storage and paved the way for the development of more compact and efficient storage devices, ultimately leading to the advanced technologies we rely on today

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