The first 1 GB hard drive weighed over 200 kilograms and was made by IBM.
Why it is true
The IBM 3380 model, released in 1980, was the size of two refrigerators and cost tens of thousands of dollars. It was a huge milestone for the time, allowing much more data storage than previous systems.
Source: IBM
Would you rather be asked first?
This is the reading side of the site, so the answer is in the sentence above — that is the whole point of it. Test yourself works the other way round: the question comes on its own, and the fact and the explanation only appear once you have answered.
Related facts
IBM's first hard drive, in 1956, weighed about a tonne and stored 5 megabytes.
The first DVD was released in 1997 and held 4.7 GB of data.
The Ctrl+Alt+Delete shortcut was created in 1981 by an IBM engineer to restart the computer without switching it off.
All the electrons circulating on the Internet together weigh approximately the same as a strawberry.
