History (1993): IBM HDD Plant in Berlin, Germany to Phase Out

IBM plans to phase out DASD manufacturing plant in Berlin, Germany, by the end of 1993.

It will be restructured into a software and service center at the end of 1995.

The disk production will be transferred to another plant in Mainz.

The Berliner site was founded in 1934 and manufactures disk storage units for mainframes, automatic teller machines and self-service machines for banking.

The Mainz plant, which started in 1965, makes thin-film magnetic heads, magnetic disks, disk drives, power-supply units and software products.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠60, published on January 1993.

Note: Manufacturing products inside the IBM’s Mainz plant were sold during an online auction on June 17, 2003.