{"id":783,"date":"2006-09-14T12:57:14","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T12:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=783"},"modified":"2006-09-14T12:57:14","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T12:57:14","slug":"the_march_of_technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/the_march_of_technology\/","title":{"rendered":"the march of technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sept. 13, 1956<\/h2>\n<p>IBM&#8217;s 5MegaByte hard drive, is the size of two refrigerators and costs $50,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/09\/13\/hard-drives-turn-50-today\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ibm-ramac.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/ibm-ramac.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Feb. 13, 2006<\/h2>\n<p>Seagate&#8217;s 12GigaByte hard drive, will fit in your cell phone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/02\/13\/seagate-announces-first-12gb-1-inch-hard-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"st1-3_lr.gif\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/st1-3_lr.gif\" width=\"425\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Sept. 13, 2006<\/h2>\n<p>50 years later: 200 times more storage than the IBM drive on something smaller than a postage stamp. (Size: 11mm widex 15mm long x 1mm tall).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/09\/13\/kingston-bumps-microsd-lineup-to-1gb\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"9.13.06---kingston-microsd.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/9.13.06---kingston-microsd.jpg\" width=\"162\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(thanks to endgadget)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 13, 1956 IBM&#8217;s 5MegaByte hard drive, is the size of two refrigerators and costs $50,000. Feb. 13, 2006 Seagate&#8217;s 12GigaByte hard drive, will fit in your cell phone. Sept. 13, 2006 50 years later: 200 times more storage than the IBM drive on something smaller than a postage stamp. (Size: 11mm widex 15mm long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,800,854,1011,1675],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compactflash","category-hard_drive","category-ibm","category-kingston","category-seagate","tag-hard_drive-ibm-compactflash-seagate-kingston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}