ibm 305 ramac

[MyFaceHole]

compact construction LOL!

[thompsoon3]

They reckon that things compact? my phone has like 6000 times the memory and a processor thats like 20,000 times faster

[macbookfan33]

"faster than even the eye can see"

nowadays all the lights would just be on..

[gardnerbm]

Whats its IP address?

[gardnerbm]

Does anyone sound like this anymore?

[donnietodd89]

Your vid went viral on Skopje

[leonvinhle]

NEXT 50years! HARD DRIVER W 1TB only s~ stamp. LOL

[leonvinhle]

Small step can change the WORLD!

[artcancro]

It may be half a century old but it's still superior to any version of Windows.

[tuslin]

What is the cost of this computer?

[gardnerbm]

@tuslin $3200 a month in 1956

[Frozenflutter]

@gardnerbm You have to rent it? wut ._.

[mizukami999]

I wonder if the machine is self-aware

[ynardhowar1229]

This video went viral on Belarus

[calvinthedestroyer]

Hey mam, Is that an ESD approved dress? ....

[animaulet]

Love this kind of adverts. They remind me of the promotional fallout videos hehe

[applemacintosh10]

This thing is scary!

[EvilPlank]

the question is: will it blend ?

[Kg277]

1:18 compact integrated construction

[Kg277]

1:18 compact integrated constuction

[GenerationXT]

I just pity the person that would have to fix it.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

@GenerationXT You mean team of repair personal.

[chucknorris687]

So this would read from a disk instead of tape right? So basically it wouldn't matter the order of which the records come in right ? Then you needed some kind of index too then right? I learned about sequential file updates this year in programming logic and this kinda looks familiar . You know like if the CMRF equal TRANS update the master record, if CMRF lessthan TRANS an error has occurred, and if CMRF greaterthan TRANS no changes have been made.

[guimbadriver]

1966 and not 1956 its a full solid state computer in hi density

[joeruckasnucka]

4.4 MB must have been massive for 1956

[TheMCMXXL2]

@joeruckasnucka It still is, when we talk about holding pure iinformation.

[charqui101]

hay que saber electronica para armar esas cosas, ahora todo es plug and play

[NinjaCheeseBurger]

@RhinoSanderson you need to be better educated in jokes and internet memes.

[azinodoniza]

@RhinoSanderson

Joker would ask you: WHY SO SERIOUS !?

[trekker4747]

"Ramac" sounds like a sexual fetish.

[gerodinis]

@RhinoSanderson

FaaTi was just kidding.

[xpeed1]

RAMAC FTW :) omg I love this vid. I'm an IBMer.

[Kg277]

3:24 whatta babe!!

[qahtani]

This could store like 5 goatses.

[boost43534]

it was giant first hard disk and it has 5 megabytes

[JimmyJohanes]

MOM WHAT IS THIS SHIT?

[GelandnaleG]

IBMRAMACIBEDAMED

IPOOPNTUBEDWARD3:05

IBMRAMACIBEDAMED



[APPOCALYYPS3]

OH HAI MOM WHATS FOR DINNE...err oh wait.. I thought this is the refrigerator

[Brickstin]

What was even worse is back then it was a Normal life style for the common Office worker to know how to understand those damn things and even re-wire the circuit boards every now and then every day to change opperations.. Thats a nightmare.. TO THINK NOW we have it mADE TOday in this day in age to easily do simple things from data management to reading writing.. its all been simplefied.. WE are in The mercy and Appretation of IBM and MAC and all the other Computer geniouses that made OUR PCs

[Zonr45]

@Brickstin I just realized. It's so easy to do data management, read/write/print operations and stuff nowadays and a big bunch of office workers fail to understand the logic of modern computers... :/ what a contrast....

[Brickstin]

Jesus chirist.. ALL THAT WIREING! Its a PC TECH's / Electritions nightmare!

[rty1955]

wow, I remember plug board wiring.. my first "programming" job was on a 407 machine

[bryceHUHwhat]

Compact you say... I'll take 3!

[sadeviant]

you can't brag about "building a computer" until you've hand wired all the logic gates yourself

[Zoomer30]

They show that style of "hard drive" (the term had not been invented yet) in the movie Colosus: the Forbin project.

[biped19]

Will the RAMAC 305 fit in my camera?

[HooGLaNDeRtje]

superb!!! :)

The mother of all machines!

[xxl606]

When I first saw the machine at 0:38, I thought it was a kitchen.

[energeez]

@xxl606 i think they marketed it like a kitchen for women secretaries probably

[martinvalade]

Génial, la plupart des gens ne s'magines pas que nos super faseya actuels ont commencer quelques part. C'etait une prouesse électronique ET mécanique.

[amanmutreja]

Amazing advert! I was wondering howcome this HDD isn't sealed like today's platter based Hard Disk Drives,, the read / write head is doing its task in open?!

[RaymondHng]

@amanmutreja Non-removable sealed hard drives came out in 1975 when IBM created the IBM 3350. It had 300 MB of storage.

[rty1955]

@RaymondHng the IBM 3344 was a non removable drive. It held about 280mb of data. The 3344 emulated (4) 3340's (removable) Each 3340 held a whopping 70MB of data. Each reel of 6250 tape held 60MB of data. So tapes were still needed. Also tapes were MUCH faster at retrieving sequential data than a disk drive of the time.

[needmorename]

Will it blend?

[jacksawild]

it will never catch on

[Zoomer30]

My iPod just made the Ramac run and hide.

[DoubleDutchBust]

4:45

[murphyld66]

Just thinking about the speed and functionality of the 305 Ramac makes me depressed.

[secret00agent00man]

So 5 MB hard drive / 50 platters = 0.1 MB per platter. I want one.

[Balage78Szfvar]

I was at a celebration at the Palace Of Arts in Hungary,Budapest in ..I think...2007..."50years of harddrives"..so iis it from 1957?

[Zonr45]

I really want to go back in time and run into that room with the netbook I typed this comment...

[milkfilk]

What is the modern corollary to that robot arm? Is that a latch? Memory controller?

[FaaTi]

Yes yes but the real question here is, Can it run Crysis ?

[macintoshgermany]

@FaaTi yes, but only the version on punchcards

[retart441]

@FaaTi Yes

[TutorialsByKevin]

@FaaTi Yes but u the fps (Frames Per Second) is now 1 fpy (Frames Per Year)

[Todd82TA]

Lol... "Inquiry station".

That's what I'm going to call my keyboard from now on.

[blindtorpedo]

If it was an ad then there seems to be too much of technical info, btw the guy stretches out each abbr, lol.

[canaanproject]

And the most amazing part: they were as proud of this machine as we are to our machines. rendez vous in 50 years guys.

[Alliart]

"wired control" o_O

Love this video! And the keyboard actually looks pretty neat by todays standards if it wasn't for it's very large footprint.

[HelloNewYorkCity]

"compact"

[DjFLASH85]

Is amazing how the technology has progressed in 50 years

[secret00agent00man]

@DjFLASH85

Yeah, I have at least 100x the power of that sitting under my desk. lolz

[Dms12444]

The 305 RAMAC had a processing power of about 413 kHZ.

[ScottieNiven]

Imagine how much data could be stored on this if we used today's data density! About 500TB mabey, older day saying would be 1000000000000000 characters!

[10mintwo]

The lady is thinking: "Wo0t!! 5 MB of storage! Finally, I can enjoy my MP3 high-fidelity recording of Beyonce's "Single ladies" without a magnifying glass and a stack of punched cards as high as my house anymore!" lulz

[Serpico261]

man u gotta love these classic documentaries or lets call this a commercial for industry

however i love to watch how people used the technology of that time and to create something wonderful

...very inspiring to me

[dnebdal]

True - modern technology doesn't carry quite the same excitement. :)

[seasonedtoker]

it's so strange that these behemots always give you feeling what nice servers these could be. but yeah, even dust in my CPU has more processing power than this one. but still a remarkable machine for it's time.

[Serpico261]

hahah, yeah ur right, u know first i thought "servers? what the hell hes talking about?", then i tought again Sure it is a server, back in the day of course.

its weird to think of a server when u look at this huge complicated machine with a breadboard built in

[Xalimdor]

Fucking Amazing. :D

I want one <3

[RichGilly]

How many times more powerful is the average cellphone when compared to this unit?

[carl0071]

Forget cell phone! This thing has less processing power than your digital wristwatch or washing machine!

[RichGilly]

lol that's true.

I remember reading that a Furbie had more processing power than the computers that helped put a man on the moon.

[carl0071]

Interesting thought.... Well i know for a fact that a Mobile/Cell phone SIM card has 4x the processing and storage capability then the computer on Apollo 11

[aei05h1]

@RichGilly AAARGH you had to remind me of Furbies didn't ya! grrrr lol

[douro20]

Such speed and ease of handling data was almost unthinkable back then.  It was such a leap forward in technology that it completely changed the way data was processed.

[Firthy2002]

What was the RRP?

[nacho19762007]

somebody knowshow many of those were sold worldwide?

[sugarpillkiller]

Thanks for posting  this gem!!!

[jimmyclerk]

What I would do to play with this thing for a few hours!!!

[xtreme01hac10docter]

Intel Pentium 2 is better then this RAMAC

[sundhaug92]

Define better

[poopskinTheLiar]

Of course, hard drives were old hat by the time the Pentium II came out. The 305 RAMAC was the first with a hard drive,

[FIXLfreak93]

today a mobile has better CPUs then that one.

that's amazing!

[NOBOX7]

i was just about to say that,lol

[oktny]

The RAMAC wasn't a CPU. It was supposed to be a HDD with 5 MB of memory.

[adelgado75]

Looks like fun stuff to work with.

[douro20]

So it still had a buffer drum...but I didn't think it was quite that fast.

[firefoxqc]

I want one for Christmas! Do it play a mp3 song, are possible?

[DURAMATRIX112]

you have to admit this was pretty advanced for 1956

[Dms12444]

correction EXTREMELY advanced for 1956 IBM you were masters of computer tech. Too bad, if you still made home PC's id definitely buy one.

[Amishman35]

64,000 cards to store a 128K 5 minute MP3 file, or you could fill 50 platters with it.

[DTanza]

Yep it`s 51 years ago today since those were first introduced.

[maxrioseco]

xDD lol debugging this ahaha xDD

[everestfalls]

COMPACT? WTF LOL

[metasuperhyper]

used to be compact back then. in another 50 years, your average desktop PC would be less than a cubic inch in size.

[poopskinTheLiar]

that'd be a bit too small for me. i'd probably end up crushing it trying to turn it on, and upgrading it'd be a nightmare with my homer simpson fingers.

[bobamu]

man, that's a lot of wires :D

in 50 years time our current computers will look even more antique :D

[kurizzos]

Thank goodness for 802.11 standards...

Still, wireless transmission and satellite are in an initiative state: a cell phone is unreliable when you try to make a call from a basement.

Maybe science can shrink the electron to help with such inadequacies. I dunno...

[kurizzos]

Holy krap!

Has anyone ever had seen the size of those HDDs?

Plus, if you've programmed those mainframes with punch cards back then, it must've been hell to wait to see your syntax errors come out the compiler after a hour long wait.

I'll never complain about a slow C++ compiler again.

:)

[metasuperhyper]

i don't think they had a compiler... propably assembly language.

[kurizzos]

metasuperhyper,

You may be right.

But resetting the assembler would be even more tedious; it's practically resetting the whole system.

[motonymph]

As a girl, I'd go on one Saturday a month with my father where he worked on these machines. Lots of noise in a big warm room with fans, elevated floors containing miles of wire that he sometimes needed to replace and rework. It was neat-o. I would rollerskate on those floors.

[jay52592]

Back then 5 MHz was very very fast!

[cpmisalive]

Wow! what a beast, I guess it uses only one side of the disc. The price must have been astronomical, the maintenance contract, eye watering.

600ms access time for the RAMAC vs. 6ms for a decent modern drive (100x faster)

Modern drivs 6ms vs. 6µs for SSDs (1,000x faster)

Modern hard disc drives have reached a plateau of performance, Flash memory will replace them in the very near future, my XPS has two 512GB SSDs and its like lightning.

[akiratrooper]

but still, SSD's produce great heat...

it'll take some time before they develop a real HDD replacement

[Membrane556]

Whats amazing is just ten years later they made a computer the size of a bread box for Gemini.

[marshalauth]

Must have been really expensive and took forever to build

[baronofcheese]

as big as this thing was, it held only 5 mb of data, of course that was a huge amount back then...

[videobox1]

Did you see all of that wire? Can you imagine how long it took to wire that machine.

[eulerw]

1st hard disk drive?

[baronofcheese]

yeah, the first hard drive ever

[Astinsan]

Did anyone else catch the "compact" part... its the size of a shed so i guess its compact.

[brooklynparrot]

Excellent piece of computing history!

[HailAnts]

RAMAC RAMAC. RAMAC. I can't stop saying it! RAMAC!

Actually this thing is pretty significant. First time data storage went 'online'. Begining of the end for punchcards (though that would take another 25 years!)

RAMAC!

[TwoBun]

Soon computers will take control of the World!

[Univac93]

...maybe...but not RAMAC, too less space...^^

[c00lvideo]

beautifully designed

compact integrated construction

trim grey process unit

i hear its good at keeping track of people

[grumpybb]

Damn, what a monster of a machine to sotre only 5 megs of data. Sure is incredible how much things have advanced.

[JDonahue79]

It's amazing that in just 50 years, it went from 5 megs of space that was the size of a kitchen room to a 1 terabyte hard drive that's the size of a small purse. There's also word that by the year 2025, hard drives may hit the pedabyte mark.

[redlautrec]

its more like 5-6 years, and even then most likely we wont even be using "read/write" hard drives, but solid state drives much like large flash drives. By 2025, computers wont even use transistors, but instead might use photons (charged light particles)to process operations.