Hard disk

September 16th, 2011  |  Published in Uncategorized  |  1 Comment

Looks like I’m back on the computer history beat again: Celebrating the 55th anniversary of the hard disk.

Like much else in our pervasive IT world the disk drive’s roots were laid down by IBM, and first appeared in a product called the 305 RAMAC, The Random Access Method of Accounting and Control, launched this week 55 years ago. Ah, those were the days.

Wow, the hard disk is even older than I am!

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  1. Adam Connor says:

    September 19th, 2011 at 8:32 am (#)

    And now you can put a 32GB SDHC in your phone — 6,000 or so times the storage capacity? (And, of course, the capacity per $ spent is 3 or so orders of magnitude beyond that.)

    The only scarce resource in computing that doesn’t seem to get dramatically cheaper over time is people…

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