The Hard Disk at 1956 (IBM 305 RAMAC)
Filed in: Gadgets, Interesting — January 3rd, 2007
In September 1956, IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The hard disk weighed over a ton and capable of storing 5MB in data.
[Thanks, HuiChoo]
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January 4th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Thank goodness we are not living in the 50s era and gadgets are getting compact with more storage
January 4th, 2007 at 12:26 am
that was our history, the great moment when IBM struggle to invent for future use (that is now, our time and more time to come..) i always love these kind of people
January 4th, 2007 at 1:58 am
haahaa..good find, imagine installing that kinda HD on a pc now…wonder how big the RAM is
January 4th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I guess everything got to start somewhere
January 4th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Nice….really it`s impressive !
Well I believe in the few years to come u`ll don’t need a physical HD…I think u`ll use the air to store our data
January 4th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Even a mere 128MB thumb drive owns it badly!! Haha…
January 4th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
wow…so big ar..
January 5th, 2007 at 3:54 am
[...] Yesterday Liew Added a nice picture for the First Computer with a Hard Disk in the World. So I said to my self:”Hmmmm..If the Hard Disk was this big then How small is it today?!” So I did a quick search for the smallest Hard Disk in the World and Find out that Toshiba built an interesting Hard Disk in 2005 which lead them right away to Guinness Book of Records as the world’s smallest hard disk. And now see the following picture where you`ll see the two (old and new) Hard Disks. [...]