The computers we are used to working with are ... the mustard in the upper echelons of corporate computing. There the mainframe still rules, sitting in air-conditioned machine rooms and providing ...
In 1956, IBM announced the first hard drive, the IBM 350 Disk File, which was designed to work with the IBM 305 RAMAC mainframe computer. The IBM 350 Disk File weighed about one ton, and stored up ...
Shipped in September 1956, the first 5MB hard disk unit weighed over a ton ... it was typically only used in large data centers and mainframe computer rooms. At the time, 5MB of storage provided ...