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jan 1, 1956 - Hard Disk Drive

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The first hard disk drive was the IBM Model 250 Disk File that came with the IBM 305 RAMAC computer in 1956. It had 50 24-inch disks with a total storage capacity of 5 million characters (Just under 5 MB).

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