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The Hard Drive Turns 50

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-it-still-feels-10 dept.

JHU writes "When the hard drive was first introduced on September 13, 1956, it required a humongous housing and 50 24-inch platters to store 1/2400 as much data as can be fit on today's largest capacity 1-inch hard drives. Back then, the small team at IBM's San Jose-based lab was seeking a way to replace tape with a storage mechanism that allowed for more-efficient random access to data. The question was, how to bring random-access storage to business computing?"

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  1. Re:let the one-upsmanship begin! by simcop2387 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    don't even think of 132, that'd get you fired on the spot!