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Source: Forum 69 Published: October, 1969
Information centers, data warehouses, search engines, and the Internet have all been proposed solutions to the discovery of information (answers) and the creation of knowledge from data, that unstructured assemblage of facts. But all of these inventions happened after that magic moment of the IBM 3330 disk drive (YES, 100 MB per disk spindle!), which arrived in 1970. This article on finding the buried nugget in a mountain of information gave the state of the art in 1969.
