Published: 13 Sep 2006 15:10 BST
A 14-inch platter (right) is dwarfed by its 24-inch predecessor. Fourteen-inchers came out in the early 1960s, when demand began to grow. Disks with 14-inch platters were stacked into heavy, but moveable, bundles that could be carried from one system to another.
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