Hard drive celebrates 50 years this September

Iria · Jun 13, 2006, 05:17 AM

Source: Personal Computers Blog (News.com)
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It's hard to believe, but the hard drive will turn 50 this September 13.

It just seemed like yesterday that it took 50 24-inch diameter platters coated with iron oxide paint mounted on a rotating spindle to store 5MB. (That would be the RAMAC, the drive in the IBM System 305 Computer. Now you can do that with a pocket drive. Meanwhile, commercial desktop drives hold up to 750GB.

Daim · Jun 13, 2006, 09:53 AM

Cool but it's getting time to replace them by flash drives or somthing Hard Disks are getting to slow.

Jun 13, 2006, 05:17 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Hard drive celebrates 50 years this September Source: Personal Computers Blog (News.com) __________ It's hard to believe, but the hard drive will turn 50 this September 13. It just seemed like yesterday that it took 50 24-inch diameter platters coated with iron oxide paint mounted on a rotating spindle to store 5MB. (That would be the RAMAC, the drive in the IBM System 305 Computer. Now you can do that with a pocket drive. Meanwhile, commercial desktop drives hold up to 750GB.

Jun 13, 2006, 09:53 AM	#2
Daim DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 69 Rep Power: 0	Cool but it's getting time to replace them by flash drives or somthing Hard Disks are getting to slow.