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Its a hard disk drive in 1956….
The Volume and Size of 5MB memory storage in 1956.
In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

Shipping cost today would be:
2 Days = $500
Overnight = $4500

Makes you appreciate your 4 GB USB thumb drive, doesn’t it?

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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I’m guessing from the looks of the cargo door that it is a DC-6B four engine plane.

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Difficult to say from the snapshot as it could be the DC-6A or C variant as the 6B did not have a cargo door.

The DC-6A was the freight variant (with cargo door) with an extended fuselage and the DC-6C was a cargo/passenger variant.

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Absolutely right there. I think I spent too many hours sleeping in those diesel sixes when I was supposed to be loading them…

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I did some checking, and surprisingly several of the sixes that I loaded were 6B’s that were reconfigured into that exact door configuration. http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.sear…nesearch=Zantop International Airlines&distinct_entry=true[/url] . I guess I was awake enough in those days. Can’t believe some of those birds still fly!

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That’s a 747 Cargo door

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Is that the first hard drive (about 50Kb or so) being loaded onto a plane.
Al.

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