Posted on July 15, 2008 at 10:10 am ( 69 views )

1956 HDD

Good history piece!

What’s being loaded into this plane?

1956-HDD

Its a hard disk in 1956…. WTF? :-O

Hard Disk Drive with 5MB storage in 1956.

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

Start appreciating your 1GB flash drives!

YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOD1umMX2s8

One Response to “1956 HDD”

  1. Euri on July 23rd, 2008 at 12:35 pm says:

    LOL~ It reminded me of how big the fist computer was.

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