Channel 5 at IBM 350 RAMAC coverage, 2006

This Is the 50th Anniversary of the harddisk drive (2006)

This Is the IBM 350 Ramac, the worlds first hard drive.

Channel 5 at RAMAC coverage on January 29, 2006.

A Ramac pioneer tells about the ramac. And also tells how many Ramac drives It takes to reach the same capacity as a 16gb Ipod.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• 2006
• harddisk
• drive
• IBM
• 350
• Ramac
• Channel

[AsokaMN]

hey lelleprinter82, answer me!

[LellePrinter82]

@AsokaMN

answer what question?

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

would be cool to hear the complete startup

[LellePrinter82]

Yeah, I think that too.

[juantor16]

SORCERY!

[AsokaMN]

@LellePrinter82 I don't know I'm a strange person sometimes I just blurt things out. BTW i don't have a question. :)

[spacehelmetforacow]

Wow. that thing just sounds so...rickety.

And I thought my dad's old mid-90s hard drives were loud...

[nawkwan]

@hitssquad

And he emphasized by saying: "and believe me, my math has already been corrected once on this." lol

[wisteela]

That is amazing.

[hitssquad]

1:29 "you would need 60,000 of these things."

No. 600,000 (100 KB platters).

[douro20]

Even that was unheard of back in 1956.

[Jonhny2]

Only 100 KILOBYTES on each of those mammoth platters!?

OMG