A Half Century of Hard Drives

Wow it's amazing to see the history of hard drive.
It's been 50 years.......Happy b'day HD Great Grandpa.
 


More on the hard drive's half-century anniversary, including in-depth interviews with the original HD's (RAMAC) creators and more pictures:

...so engineers from leading drive manufacturer Shugart & Associates met with Wang engineers in a dark bar in Boston and decided the next disk drive size should be 5 ¼ inches -- the size of a cocktail napkin. "Those became sacred dimensions for the next 10 years,"...
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http://www.computerworld.com/action...ewArticleBasic&articleId=9003261&pageNumber=1





 
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