Pic of The Day: Here’s What One MP3 Would’ve Looked Like in 1956

October 1, 2014

iPods would never have been a success if the brainiacs of yesteryear didn’t work out the technological kinks for our eventual leap into the digital age. Below, a 5 megabyte IBM hard disk is loaded into an airplane back in 1956. It weighed over 2,200 lbs. That’s roughly one song’s worth of data.

Thanks to ClassicPics on Twitter for the pic!

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