Phyllis Olsen and Nelson Osborn, students at the Olympia Vocational Technical Institute (now South Puget Sound Community College), fire up a new data storage disk machine. The machine was rented for $244 a month and could store 6 disks for a total of .2 megabytes (for comparison, this digital image is about 12 times that size and storage cost a few pennies)
Daily Olympian photo, September 1963, State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1986.43.63.9.26.2
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2019