cm0002@piefed.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 3 days agoIBM announced the world’s first HDD, the 3.75MB RAMAC 350 disk storage unit, 69 years ago today — unit weighed more than a ton, 50 platters ran at 1,200 RPMwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down10
arrow-up1170arrow-down1external-linkIBM announced the world’s first HDD, the 3.75MB RAMAC 350 disk storage unit, 69 years ago today — unit weighed more than a ton, 50 platters ran at 1,200 RPMwww.tomshardware.comcm0002@piefed.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoThey used 6 bit encoding for the text, so the drive stored around 5 million characters which would be around 2500-3000 pages of text. For the break even point you also have to consider how much time it takes to find and access a file and how much time it takes to edit it.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 days agoI suppose they did without the grotesque luxury of lower case letters, haha.
They used 6 bit encoding for the text, so the drive stored around 5 million characters which would be around 2500-3000 pages of text.
For the break even point you also have to consider how much time it takes to find and access a file and how much time it takes to edit it.
I suppose they did without the grotesque luxury of lower case letters, haha.