Searching San Jose, The RAMAC Story

[SkylineToTheSeaAndMe]

Fabulous video. Thanks for posting. My father started working at the San Jose plant (General Products Division, Cottle Road) in 1959 and retired in 1993 working at the Santa Teresa Laboratory (now Silicon Valley Laboratory) as a software development engineer. What's so great, is this video captures the huge plant site that once was and is now gone.

[Kg277]

4:08 bouncing like my gramma's titties!!

[douro20]

It was going to be a temporary lab, but the Almaden Research Center still exists.

[heidiatplanetoid]

@douro20 This wasn't at Almaden. This was the Santa Teresa site. The site is now owned by Hitachi. Much of it is gone now, including the water storage ponds. But some of those characteristic multi-colored tiled buildings are there still on the Hitachi campus and the new Lowes built on part of the site also has a similar exterior motif. There's a new public park now there appropriately named Ramac.

[Serpico261]

wow, just fascinating to watch those vintage documentaries

IBM- keep it up

[6364gg2]

God dammit! WHAT IS THE PAINT MADE OF??????

[douro20]

Iron oxide.

[6364gg2]

and where can I buy some???

[douro20]

Don't know.

[maxrioseco]

ahaha hardisk crafter like disney art attack lol. our grandparents =)

[produKtNZ]

Just finished watching it. And wow!.

I was born in 1984, the first pc i used was a Apple IIGS in about 1992-4 and i thought it was amazing then!, but this has just blown my socks off.

but why couldn't they have kept the tape storage and found a way to electronically index the data instead? It seems more logical in this day and age lol

[douro20]

The IBM 305 RAMAC was so revolutionary that it completely changed the way computers were built.

[produKtNZ]

.... One year ago ....