Tag: 50TH BIRTHDAY

The disk drive celebrates its 50th birthday today. There has been a lot of progress since then, adding many, many GB's to its capacity, and shrinking it to a nice palm-sized design. The first disk drive built by IBM, in what is now known as Silicon Valley, known as the RAMAC held 5 megabytes of data on 50 disks. The 24-inch diameter of the 305 RAMAC computer made this machine a little hard to ...