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5 MB hard drive in 1956 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 56 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes kids, before color TV was commonplace people would stand around and watch cargo get loaded for fun. It was a dark time in entertainment history.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hey if someone told me I could go see the 2025 equivalent of this hard drive being unloaded if probably go take a look.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What would that even be?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The spectacle and witnessing something revolutionary makes the person feel like they're a part of history. A modern equivalent is any time that happens. The article is irrelevant, whether it's a huge hard drive or an artificial heart or a robotic arm or a human dinosaur hybrid being loaded into a cargo crate doesn't matter.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This honestly just makes me wonder how chill a workday was if three whole buildings of office drones could empty into the streets to watch them load this for two hours.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My brother in christ, you have no idea. The rise of the computer age and needing round the clock support for all that entails has really done a number on the working class. I am old enough to remember how chill work environments in the 80's and early 90's were. (Everyone smoking indoors sucked, though)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I considered editing my comment to reference the rampant secondhand smoke.

    But yeah I just interviewed for a position with an on-call rotation. I asked them about sleeping hours, and then I asked them about attendance expectations in the face of a midnight emergency. They just blinked at me.

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