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The IBM 305 RAMAC, the First Computer with a Hard Drive: $10,000 per Megabyte : History of Information
The first hard drive was invented in 1956, weighed 2,140 pounds, and could only hold a song's worth of data. 👍 to learn more about the past, present, and... | By Western DigitalFacebook
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IBM on X: "In Sept. 1956, IBM announced the world's first hard disk drive, used by the IBM 305 RAMAC pictured here: http://t.co/mPXYmJBpOS" / X
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