Today we can get Hard disks of size as small as an inch yet with hundreds of GB storage capacity.But this month 50 years ago when Hard Disk took birth at the IBM San Jose laboratory,this was not the case.Some interesting specs about it are :It was weighing One Ton,of size approx of two refrigirators,Storage capacity was 5MB(considered to be huge then).
On the ocassion of this 50 year celebration , a nice website has been designed to let people know about this mighty machine.http://www.magneticdiskheritagecenter.org/ is worth visitng
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On the ocassion of this 50 year celebration , a nice website has been designed to let people know about this mighty machine.http://www.magneticdiskheritagecenter.org/ is worth visitng
Picture Gallery (PDF)
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