Today in History
IBM introduced Hard disk
It was announced in 1956 with the then new IBM 305 RAMAC computer. A variant the IBM 355 Disk File was simultaneous announced with the IBM RAM 650 computer, an enhancement to the IBM 650. The IBM 350 drive had fifty 24-inch (0.6 m) platters, with a total capacity of five million 6-bit characters (3.75 megabytes).In above picture,a 5 MB hard drive is being shipped.
Voice and written by Azhar Niaz