Computer Expert Oldfags And Newfags Comparing Their Disc Sizes

[AProudLefty]

I remember when I was a computer student in this professor's course. He'd keep reminiscing how great it was during his days and how big those floppy disks were. He called it "heyday".

The biggest one of them was this.

 

[AProudLefty]

Eager to enhance America’s codebreaking capabilities, the US Navy contracts with Engineering Research Associates (ERA) for a stored program computer. The result was Atlas, completed in 1950. Atlas used magnetic drum memory, which stored information on the outside of a rotating cylinder coated with ferromagnetic material and circled by read/write heads in fixed positions. ERA successfully sold a commercial version of the Atlas, the ERA 1103.