2009-06-12

Do you know what is this?

The year is 1956...




It's an IBM 350 disk storage unit ( "Model 1 announced September 4, 1956" - IBM)!
IBM 350 RAMAC was the first commercial computer that used a moving head hard disk (HDD) drive (magnetic disk storage) for secondary storage.

Weight: 1 T!
Capacity: aprox 5Mb! ("The HDD stored 5 million 8-bit (7-bits plus 1 odd parity bit) characters." - Wikipedia)

"More than 1,000 305s were built before production ended in 1961. The 305 RAMAC was one of the last vacuum tube systems designed in IBM." - IBM

More info:
In IBM
in Wikipedia


And your pen drive/digital camera has 2Gb or more :-)?

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