Hard drive 1956 (jan 1, 1956 – jan 31, 1956)

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IBM releases the first computer hard disk drive, the 2,000-pound-plus, refrigerator-size IBM 305 RAMAC, which introduces magnetic disk storage. Up until then, files were either kept on spools of magnetic tape or on good old-fashioned paper, with no way to jump right to the record you wanted to pull up. With the RAMAC, a mechanical arm would retrieve data by storing data at a particular magnetic orientation. This technology goes on to be used (at a smaller size) in laptops and computer servers everywhere.
Experience:
None of us have actually seen the first hard drives in person but have only heard and seen about it when talking about the history or computers in class. We have only been exposed to its modified versions that were released later like the floppy disks and the present hard disk drives.

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