Before we ring out the year, let us together celebrate the golden jubilee anniversary of the hard disk. Back in 1956, IBM designers were working on replacing tape with a storage medium enabling random access to data. Their work led to the building of a device called Random Access Method of Accounting and Control (RAMAC). The HDD era began when RAMAC 305 entered the market in September 1956. The RAMAC could hold 5MB, weighed about a ton, and was five to six feet in length and breadth.
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