![History Buffs 5 MB of data on 62,500 punch cards in 1955. [524x680 - 336KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/qRHSVl.png){kind=link}
Those punch cards were used up until the early 1980s for government paychecks and batch processing.
Those punch cards were used up until the early 1980s for government paychecks and batch processing.
IBM 5 MB hard drive 1956 (img-cdn.tnwcdn.com)
[IBM 5 MB hard drive 1956](https://img-cdn.tnwcdn.com/image?fit=1152%2C648&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2011%2F12%2FScreen-Shot-2011-12-26-at-18.38.18.png&signature=3b9057b29b24ec83afbccd0562d2abaa)
Mirror because these CDN links don't last.
Mirror because these CDN links don't last.
https://pic8.co/sh/l9jY2W.jpeg
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