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-squarefloofloof@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-23 days agoI like the bit where they wheel in the equivalent amount of data in stacks of punch cards, and the hard drive takes up more space. (Not fair I know because they didn’t show the punch card reader, but the bits on these platters must be ridiculously large.)
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoHow else are they supposed to program with handheld bar magnets? /s
I like the bit where they wheel in the equivalent amount of data in stacks of punch cards, and the hard drive takes up more space.
(Not fair I know because they didn’t show the punch card reader, but the bits on these platters must be ridiculously large.)
How else are they supposed to program with handheld bar magnets? /s