7:58 PM

5 MB Harddisk...!!!

Posted by Milan Patel 7:58 PM |


Do you guess what is this...?




This is the hard disk of 5MB Only

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a
hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.



The IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit provides storage capacity of the disk drive
was 5MB (referred to at the time as 5 million characters). It was configured
with 50 magnetic disks containing 50,000 sectors, each of which held 100
alphanumeric characters.


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