#IBM 305 RAMAC

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In 1956, IBM introduced a groundbreaking innovation: the 5MB hard drive. This was a revolutionary advancement in data storage, offering an unprecedented capacity for its time. Housed in a massive cabinet, the IBM 305 RAMAC hard drive weighed over a ton and was about the size of a refrigerator, yet it could hold the equivalent of 5 megabytes of data—an amount that seems minuscule by today's standards but was a monumental leap forward in computing.

The 5MB IBM hard drive was a key component of the IBM 305 RAMAC, one of the first computers to use a hard disk for data storage. Prior to this, data had to be stored on punched cards or magnetic tapes, which were much slower and less reliable. The hard drive allowed for quicker access to data, transforming how businesses could store and retrieve information, laying the foundation for the future of computing.

Though large and costly by today's standards, the 5MB IBM hard drive marked the beginning of the digital storage revolution. It demonstrated the potential for computer data storage and paved the way for the development of more compact and efficient storage devices, ultimately leading to the advanced technologies we rely on today.

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In 1956, IBM unveiled the world’s first commercial hard disk drive: the IBM 305 RAMAC. It weighed over a ton and could store just 5 megabytes of data—less than a single high-resolution photo today! Its storage unit used 50 massive 24-inch platters to read and write data using magnetic heads.

Fast forward to today, and we now carry terabytes of data in drives smaller than a deck of cards. What once required a forklift now fits in your pocket. This leap in data storage shows just how far computing has come—and how fast innovation can change the game.

#TechHistory #DataStorage #HardDriveEvolution #EngineeringMilestones #From5MBto5TB

[retrocompmx]

Un día como hoy. (27 de septiembre) 2

También un día como hoy, 27 de septiembre, pero de 1930, nació Alan Shugart, pionero de la unidad de disco (Floppy Disk) para computadora y fundador de Seagate Technology. Trabajó con la IBM 305 RAMAC, de donde obtuvo la idea de desarrollar los discos duros para PC, fundando Shugart Technologies en 1979, con gran éxito que, en menos de un año, cambió el nombre a Seagate. Murió el 12 de diciembre de 2006 a los 76 años. #retrocomputingmx #alanshugart #floppydisk #Seagate

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Events 9.13 (after 1920)

1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences. 1923 – Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship. 1933 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. 1942 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeat attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces. 1944 – World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions. 1948 – Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union. 1948 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate. 1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage. 1956 – The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed. 1962 – An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university. 1964 – South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh. 1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne. 1968 – Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact. 1971 – State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives. 1971 – Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard. 1979 – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa). 1982 – Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board. 1985 – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games. 1986 – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city. 1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning. 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure). 1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu. 1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy. 1997 – A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33. 2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks. 2007 – The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. 2007 – The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings. 2008 – Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries. 2013 – Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.

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IBM 305 RAMAC and the 1960 Winter Olympics

https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/ibm-ramac-and-1960-winter-olympics.html

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Celebrando o Dia da Informática: Curiosidades Tecnológicas! 🖥

Hoje é um dia especial para todos os entusiastas da tecnologia, pois estamos celebrando o Dia da Informática! Uma data que nos lembra da incrível jornada que a computação tem trilhado ao longo dos anos, transformando nossas vidas de maneiras inimagináveis. Vamos comemorar esse dia com algumas curiosidades fascinantes sobre o mundo da informática:

1. O Primeiro Bug:

Em 1947, durante o desenvolvimento do computador Mark II, um "bug" literal foi encontrado no sistema. Um inseto, uma mariposa, ficou preso em um dos relés, causando um mau funcionamento. Esse incidente cunhou o termo "bug" como um problema em sistemas computacionais.

2. Memória da Apollo 11:

A Apollo 11, a primeira missão tripulada à Lua, em 1969, tinha uma capacidade de computação inferior à de um simples smartphone atual. Seu computador de bordo tinha apenas cerca de 64 KB de memória, o que é aproximadamente 1.000 vezes menos do que um smartphone médio hoje em dia!

3. O primeiro mouse:

O primeiro mouse foi inventado por Douglas Engelbart em 1963. Ele possuía apenas um único botão e era feito de madeira. Foi somente décadas depois que os mouses de dois botões se tornaram populares.

4. Tamanho dos primeiros discos rígidos:

O primeiro disco rígido comercializado, o IBM 305 RAMAC, foi lançado em 1956 e tinha uma capacidade de armazenamento de apenas 5 megabytes. Hoje, pendrives pequenos podem conter centenas de vezes mais dados.

Neste Dia da Informática, celebremos a incrível jornada tecnológica que nos trouxe até aqui. Da era dos grandes computadores com capacidades mínimas à era da computação quântica e da inteligência artificial, a informática moldou nosso mundo de maneiras inimagináveis. Abrace o progresso e continue explorando os horizontes tecnológicos!

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This is how the first hard drive looked like. It weighed 1 ton and had 5 MB of storage, 1956.

In September 1956, IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD).

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A bit of September 14th history...

1812 - Great Fire of Moscow begins as Napoleon approaches the city and retreating Russians burn it

1814 - Francis Scott Key pens “The Star Spangled Banner” while witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry from a ship in Baltimore harbor

1872 - Britain pays US $15.5 million for damages during Civil War

1939 - World’s 1st practical helicopter takes flight - Connecticut

1956 - IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage; weighs over a ton (pictured)

1960 - Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela form the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

1984 - 1st MTV Video Music Awards

2009 - David Attenborough and Prince William officially open the Darwin Center at the National History Museum London, in what is the museums most significant expansion since 1881

2019 - A drone attack on Abqaiq oil plant in Saudi-Arabia takes out half the country’s oil production and 5% of the worlds; Yemen Houthi rebels claim responsibility 

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IBM  hard disk drive being loaded on a Pam Am jet in 1956.  The 305 RAMAC weighed one ton and stored 5MB.

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International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NYControl panel for IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Memory Accounting Machine)

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Swapping a Hard drive in 1956

IBM RAMAC 305 - 5mo Hard drive

[retrocompmx]

Un día como hoy en la tecnología (13 de septiembre)

El 13 de septiembre de 1956, IBM hizo historia con el lanzamiento del IBM 305 RAMAC, el primer ordenador comercial con disco duro magnético.

Este innovador equipo podía almacenar el equivalente a 64,000 tarjetas perforadas y marcó el inicio del almacenamiento en disco secundario.

Diseñado para mejorar la contabilidad en tiempo real, el IBM 305 RAMAC era un coloso de más de una tonelada, con un disco duro de 5MB que contenía 50 discos de 24 pulgadas.

Aunque su producción terminó en 1961 y fue reemplazado por el IBM 1405, el RAMAC dejó una huella imborrable en la historia de la tecnología.

#retrocomputingmx#historiadelacomputación#retrocompmx#IBM#UnDíaComoHoy

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Events 9.13 (after 1950)

1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage. 1956 – The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed. 1962 – An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university. 1964 – South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh. 1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne. 1968 – Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact. 1971 – State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives. 1971 – Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard. 1977 – General Motors introduces Diesel engine, with Oldsmobile Diesel engine, in the Delta 88, Oldsmobile 98, and Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser models amongst others. 1979 – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa). 1982 – Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board. 1985 – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games. 1986 – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city. 1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning. 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure). 1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu. 1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy. 1997 – A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33.[8] 2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks. 2007 – The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. 2007 – The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings.[9] 2008 – Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries. 2008 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas. 2013 – Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured. 2018 – The Merrimack Valley gas explosions: One person is killed, 25 are injured, and 40 homes are destroyed when excessive natural gas pressure caused fires and explosions.

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1956: Transporting an IBM 305 RAMAC, the first computer model with a hard disk drive (HDD), which weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data. [600x754] Check this blog!

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Evening folks, I've been all over Somerset an alot of Dorset in the last few days looking at rescue dogs as a companion for my mother in law so tonight is a quick Trivia snippet. . In 1956, 5 megabytes (5MB) of data weighed a ton, It was 1956 when IBM launched IBM 305 RAMAC, the first computer with something like a hard drive that we use today. By hard drive, we mean something that used magnetic disks - a moving head was used to access and write that data. At the time, it was considered a massive leap in massstorage technology because it signified a shift: from punch cards and magnetic tape (which stored data sequentially) to randomly accessible hard drives. RAMAC itself stood for Random Access Method of Accounting & Control. The whole cabinet weighed over 1000kg and the 5MP data was spread over 50 huge aluminium disks, coated with magnetic iron oxide. The disks rotated at a speed of 1200rpm and the machines were leased for $3,200 per month back in the day. . Please don't forget pop along to wifeidge.uk an stock up on those beauty & skincare products. Look out for the epic 4D!! Tell Wifeidge I sent yah 😉👍. . Thats All For Today Thanks for reading. . TerrierByteIT, Keeping You Connected!!. . ☎️ telephone:️ 07759 552599 . 📧 e-mail: peterdownton@terrierbyteit.uk . 🕸️ web:️ www.terrierbyteit.uk . 🌝📚 www.facebook.com/TerrierByteIT . . . . #TerrierByteIT #Wifeidge #wifeidge.uk #Younique #computerhistory #computer #technology #history #computerscience #tech #computerhistorymuseum #computers #retro #vintage #retrotech #trivia #oldtechnology #techhistory #technologyhistory #computinghistory #oldcomputer #oldschool #informationtechnology #thisdayinhistory #internethistory #historyoftechnology #retrocomputer #oldtech #museum #vintagecomputer https://www.instagram.com/p/BxlGy1vjdKw/?igshid=vegilhfdtj81