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First hard disk First hard disk
Part computer, part tabulator, in 1956, IBM's RAMAC was the first machine with a hard disk, which was extraordinary technology of the times. Each of its 24" diameter platters held a whopping 100,000 characters (they were not bytes then) for a total of five million characters. (Images courtesy of International Business Machines Corporation. Unauthorized use not permitted.) |