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Plus Deck Cassette Converter

Anyone out there still playing cassette tapes nowadays? I think almost nobody uses now, you barely even find newly manufactured cars with cassette decks. This is pretty expected due to the constant rise in MP3 music popularity, but what if you can’t find that 70’s track on a CD?

Plus Deck Cassette Converter is the answer, not a very cheap answer (�?£100), but still an answer:

Once you’ve hooked up the Plus Deck you can rediscover the music and sounds you grew up with in MP3 format, archive your collection, or simply use it to play tapes on your computer.

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5MB Hard Disk 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.

The IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit provides storage capacity of the disk drive was 5MB (referred to at the time as 5 million characters). It was configured with 50 magnetic disks containing 50,000 sectors, each of which held 100 alphanumeric characters.

With the cabinet covers on, the IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit measured 5’ 8” tall, 5’ wide and 2’ 5” deep, whilst it weighed in at massive 250kgs. The unit comprised fifty 24” platters, one pair of read/write heads and a pulley system that provided both the vertical and horizontal head movement.