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Remembering RAMAC

San Jose Mercury News

Thursday 26 May 2005, 12:53 pm
Keywords: Computer Topics , News Articles

At 99 Notre Dame Ave. in downtown San Jose, nearly 50 years ago, a small band of IBM engineers developed the RAMAC, the first system for storing data on magnetic disks. The refrigerator-size beast was a technological breakthrough, and it's considered by most to be the forerunner of today's hard drives.

The RAMAC stored 5 megabytes
of data on its 50 disks.

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