The hard disk drive is 50 years old
This monster is the first HDD, released in 1956 and known as the RAMAC.
[It] stored only 5 megabytes of data on 50 disks, 24 inches in diameter. It weighed more than 250 kilograms.
Check out the RAMAC gallery of photos at: ZDNet.
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