The RAMAC hard drive could hold roughly 5 MB of data, the equivalent of an MP3 music file. That may seem puny, but in the 50s, it was enormous. RAMAC was also physically big, filling an entire room.

In the oral history, Clemens described his RAMAC days in San Jose. “This was seven days a week, eight, ten, twelve-hour days, pretty routine,” he told interviewer Jim Porter.

Object Details maker IBM IBM Description In the 1950s, IBM introduced a random access memory for information stored on discs in its IBM 650 and IBM 305 RAMAC computers. The RAM consisted of fifty ...

Check out IBM's 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) hard disk and those gripes about dragging around that USB thumb drive soon evaporate. This 1956 HDD was composed of 50 24 ...