Hard drives: history of
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In May, 1955, a small IBM branch based in San Jose, CA, took the computer market by surprise with a product that offered unprecedented storage capabilities for a computer. The RAMAC, or random-access method of accounting and control, Was larger than two refrigerators. It was capable of storing 5 million characters (Not Bytes, which are 8-bit, these characters were 7-bit.) on 50, 2" aluminum disks. The IBM RAMAC was the beginning of a still growing Hard Drive industry.
In San Jose, CA, Reynold B. Johnson ran a bootleg project using IBM facilities and funds to produce what was considered a unrealistic, non-profit, product. The Hard Drive. San
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