The 305 RAMAC — First Commercial Hard Drive

Captain DaFt writes "Snopes.com has an article that gives an interesting look back at the first commercial hard drive, the IBM 350. Twice as big as a refrigerator and weighing in at a ton, it packed a whopping 4.4MB! Compare that to the 1-4GB sticks that most of us have on our keychains today."

Re:Funny story ...

[Chris Burke]

It was all so very long ago, those neurons are getting a little rusty. :-P

Why back in my day, boy, we measured frequency in seconds per cycle and we liked it!

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Re:funny thing is..

[mendax]

Actually, there is:

http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Movies-n-Sounds.html [ed-thelen.org]

You will see the thing running!

Re:Storage costs...

[brainboyz]

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress [wikipedia.org], that would be an undetermined size in excess of 20 TB. The text alone would total 17-20 TB and that doesn't include the photos, sculptures, or sound recordings.

Re:Funny story ...

[Chris Burke]

We had to write the program, then IMAGINE how it would run!

You had imagination?! Spoiled brat!

Haha, we could go on all day. I think the best part of this thread is the "informative" mod on my first post.