The hard drive is 50 years old

Posted by Vic Laurie
September 13, 2006

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the advent of the hard drive. PC World has some interesting history. Here’s how it all began:

1956: IBM ships the first hard drive, the RAMAC 305, which holds 5MB of data at $10,000 a megabyte. It is as big as two refrigerators and uses 50 24-inch platters.

Hardware, History of technology

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