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IBM RAMAC the First Hard Disk

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Mar 14 2008 Published in: Peripherals Tags: , , , ,

RAMAC

Look at how time have changed. in 1956, IBM’s RAMAC was the first machine with a hard disk, which was way ahead of its time. Each of its 24″ diameter platters held a whopping 100,000 characters for a total of five million characters. Nowadays, most of us wouldn’t want anything less than 300 GB, heck, even our USB drive hold much much more data than the RAMAC.

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