In 1956, IBM announced the first hard drive, the IBM 350 Disk File, which was designed to work with the IBM 305 RAMAC mainframe computer. The IBM 350 Disk File weighed about one ton, and stored up ...

Shipped in September 1956, the first 5MB hard disk unit weighed over a ton (2,000 pounds) and was used by the IBM 305 RAMAC, which was the first commercial computer to have a moving-head hard disk.

By 1991, IBM had squeezed 1 GB into the 3.5-inch, eight-platter 0663 Corsair HDD, and by 2018, you could purchase a 16 TB 3.5-inch Seagate hard drive off the shelf, which equates to the storage ...

25 years ago, IBM announced the first tape drive according to the Linear Tape Open specification. Now the company is the last manufacturer of LTO drives. Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Seagate joined ...

even as larger drives became available. Since many IBM installations were leased and hardware sold at various prices, it is hard to peg down exactly what one of these beasts cost. But it is a ...

a 571MB drive the size of a modern-day photocopier. It used seven 14-inch "platters" to hold data. 1980 - IBM introduced the first 1GB hard drive. With its complete casing, it was the size of a ...

IBM's second successful commercial computer (the first was the 650 ... equipped 1401 had 16KB of six-bit core memory and six tape drives. All input was on punch cards, and all output was printed ...

IBM counts some 15,000 employees in its hard drive business ... a share expected by analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial/First Call. IBM earned 98 cents per share in the first quarter of ...

The hard drive did not make an appearance ... On that date – 43 years ago this week – IBM introduced its personal computer: the 5150. It wasn’t the first – Tandy, Commodore, and Apple ...