motzes is back and unearthed another beautiful story:

“ramac, ‘random access method of accounting and control’ was introduced by ibm september 13, 1956. the system used fifty metallic disks, each 1 meter in diameter […] the storage capacity was 5 megabytes. to reach that, they had to built a device in the size of a closet. when they turned it on, the whole box was shaking like a washing machine, franklin says. engineers at that time suggested the usage of a short wire. for saftey reasons. or – to put it in a historic folkloric way – to keep it from walking out the door”.

does your hard drive behave similarly?