Monday, August 25, 2008

The first hard disk - 50 years ago

In 1956 IBM invented the first computer disk storage system, the 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control). This system had a storage of 5 MB and it had fifty disks, each being 61 cm (24″) in diameter.
It wasn’t necessarily a very portable device, so maybe we should stop complaining about those ‘only 120 GB’ laptop drives.

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