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This was a 1TB hard drive in 1937.

It was the largest vertical letter file in the world. 4000 SqFt. with over 3000 drawers 10 feet long managed by 20 workers.

Access speed was ~3 minutes per KB.

via Brian Roemmele from Twitter

On International Women's Day - we celebrate the one who saved Star Trek: Lucille Ball. 🖖
#roddenberry #internationalwomensday #StarTrek

Tired of waiting until the end of a sentence before you can be histrionic? The exclamation comma.

Best #camping and #backpacking #drybag ever: the inside of a Starbucks Traveler, cut open, washed and dried, with a piece of #ducttape over a length of scrap paracord. 100% waterproof (ocean kayak proven).

Donna Shirley joined @NASAJPL in 1966 as an aeronautical engineer, and went on to lead the development of the first rover to land on Mars (Sojourner) and become the 1st woman to lead a NASA Program, the Mars Exploration Program!

More about her career: go.nasa.gov/41IUsOl
#NASAhistory

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