This is the hard drive developed by IBM for their RAMAC computer in 1956. It has an amazing 5MB capacity, and consists of 50 1200RPM platters. In the last 50 years, hard drive capacity has increased exponentially to 150,000 times as much, while size has decreased to about the tenth of that first hard drive. If things keep progressing at the rate they have over the last 10 years, in another 10 years we'll have 2.5″ 75TB drives. That's enough to hold over a century of continuous music as higher than CD quality.
“Information is stored, magnetically, on fifty disks which rotate at 1200 rpm. These disks are mounted so as to rotate about a vertical axis, with a spacing of three tenths of an inch between disks. This spacing permits two magnetic heads to be positioned to any one of the 100 concentric tracks which are available on each side of each disk. Each track contains 500 alphanumeric characters. Total storage capacity: 5,000,000 characters. The two recording heads are mounted in a pair of arms which are moved, by a feed-back control system, in a radial direction to straddle a selected disk. This new system promises memory storage possibilities never before accomplished.”
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The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain are obviously short of decent singers…
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Paulie the Penis clears it up for anyone who's unsure.
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A phenomenon known as “goatse” has taken the internet by storm, in what has become the fad from hell that just won't die. Don't know what goatse is? It's a picture, go look it up, can't miss it. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the goatse is, you must see it for yourself….
Phase 1: Shock
“OMGWTF!” *MINIMIZE……*
No, I won't be hosting the pic, google images will tell you if you really want to know
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A recent trailer for the latest X-Men movie has a line taken from the massively famous “Juggernaut Bitch” video by Naztradamix. The dubbed version of a transformers clip was popular last year.
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It’s a clear sign the world’s gone mad when an axe wielding nutter dressed as a lizard monster wins Eurovision. Just when everyone was expecting “We are stars of eurovision” to win, Lordi suprised everyone. They even gave the lead singer some flowers for his dungeon…
Lordi’s music video
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Lordi’s official site
The man cannon is design to hurl SWAT team members and other emergency personnel onto otherwise inaccessible rooftops. It consists of a forward-facing chair mounted on rails that point at an angle of up to 80°. Powered by compressed air, the “payload” would shoot up until the saddle reaches the end of the rails, at which point he would flail free skyward.
Seems like a great idea, but what if the SWAT guy has an extra clip in his pocket that shifts his weight…
Read the patent [Via: The Register]
With Philips Bodygroom. It might be a joke or just another marketing gimmick, I'm not sure. Either way, what were they thinking!
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This video proves unquestionably that God exists. Reminds me alot of the 'That's amazing show'…
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This guy's actually pretty good. Makes me wonder whether there's someone walking around somewhere with my face, voice and weird sense of humour. 
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