The first Hard Disc

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The fist hard disc from IBM company in 1956. This hard disc was able to save only 8 photos.

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2017-13-07 Update

That was the Model 350 disk drive for the 305 RAMAC system. Its capacity was 3.75 megabytes with a 1-second average access time.

Interesting history in Wikipedia:
"The IBM 350 drive had fifty 24-inch (0.6 m) platters, with a total capacity of five million 6-bit characters (3.75 megabytes).[9] A single head assembly having two heads was used for access to all the platters, yielding an average access time of just under 1 second."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives

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Thanks for sharing, Amir.

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You're welcome.

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Amir - We have seen an amazing leap in technology. Thanks for sharing.

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Amazing! But it was only the beginning :)

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Yes.

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Incredible how everything shrinks

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It's amazing!

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Impressive in size, but not in memory!
Thanks for sharing, Amir!

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You're welcome.

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If they knew then how far we would move in such a short time with technology

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They won't believe.

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We've come a long way

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Yup, a long way until today!

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That was the Model 350 disk drive for the 305 RAMAC system. Its capacity was 3.75 megabytes with a 1-second average access time..

Interesting history in wikipedia:
"The IBM 350 drive had fifty 24-inch (0.6 m) platters, with a total capacity of five million 6-bit characters (3.75 megabytes).[9] A single head assembly having two heads was used for access to all the platters, yielding an average access time of just under 1 second."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives

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Thank you, Bob,
If you let me, I want to add your comment as an update to this blog post. Is it ok for you?

That's fine with me.

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Thank you...

Hi Amir, how technology has advanced since then. Irv.

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It was amazing at that time.

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Interesting. Next came circuitry in development and miniaturization!.

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