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5 MB Harddisk...!!!
Posted by avnrurfriend in TECHNO NEWS on Friday, May 14, 2010
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.
