5MB Hard Drive

By Miss Cellania in History, Pictures, Science & Tech on Feb 17, 2011 at 7:41 am

A computer from the mid-20th century would fill an entire room -a big room, at that! IBM introduced the 305 RAMAC system in 1956, the first computer to use a hard drive. What you see here is that hard drive, which weighed a ton and held a whopping 5 megabytes of memory storage. It was named the 350 Disk Storage Unit. At the time, you could lease the entire computer setup for a mere $3,200 a month! Link -via Bits and Pieces


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  1. playtrombone64
    Feb 17th, 2011 at 8:21 am

    Amazing… and to think I have about 6,000 times that storage capacity in a chip half the size of a postage stamp in my phone.

  2. Rawley
    Feb 17th, 2011 at 10:04 am

    Hahah, that would hold like one mp3.

  3. Haring Wati
    Feb 21st, 2011 at 8:34 am

    LOL@Rawley. That was what I had in mind, too. Would probably also hold about 15 to 25 photos, 640×480. Haha!

  4. T_Man
    Feb 22nd, 2011 at 11:00 am

    One mp3, but how long would it take to play?


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