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02-09-2007, 05:53 PM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | Guess what this is See if you guys can guess what this is that they are loading onto this airplane.
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02-09-2007, 05:56 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: niagara falls
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| Photo copier or Computer |
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02-09-2007, 07:10 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London
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| My old laptop maybe? |
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02-09-2007, 08:05 PM
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| "Shooter" Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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| Close guys. I'll give it a bit more before revealing the identity of this groundbreaking device.
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02-09-2007, 10:27 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Canvey Island, Essex
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| A winchester drive or my first colour TV |
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02-09-2007, 11:07 PM
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| "Shooter" Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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| I don't remember Winchester drives being that big!
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02-09-2007, 11:15 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Canvey Island, Essex
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| Well I thought it may be a prototype Eric, sort of a Winchester Cathedral version  |
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02-10-2007, 12:04 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kiwi Land
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| Physical storge device. Hard Disk for a main frame computer.
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02-10-2007, 12:20 PM
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| "Shooter" Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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| This is a 4.4 Meg Hard Disk 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 4.4MB of data.
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02-10-2007, 12:36 PM
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02-10-2007, 12:55 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| Good one Evans.
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02-10-2007, 04:08 PM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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02-10-2007, 08:27 PM
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| aka Dickcheese   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| I was going to guess a microwave oven. Anyone ever seen one from the '50s. About that size.
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02-11-2007, 12:32 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Queensland, Australia
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|  . I was going to say a generator but a hard drive for a computer makes more sense.
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