History (1956): First Commercial HDD Shipped

IBM 350 RAMAC (5MB)

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 1, 2018 at 2:06 pm

This article comes from the Computer History Museum.
1956: First commercial HDD drive shipped
Model 350 RAMAC unit stored the equivalent of 5MB of data on 50 large disks
Model 350 RAMAC actuator and disk stack
(Courtesy Mark Richards)

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