Inside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, sits an odd-looking, refrigerator-sized contraption that could have been created by an out-of-control set designer for “Lost in ...

IBM unleashed the world's first computer hard disk drive in 1956. It was bigger than a refrigerator. It weighed more than a ton. And it looked kinda like one of those massive cylindrical air ...

“The hard disk! How many technologies ever last 50 years?” said Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Computer, whose hometown of San Jose, Calif., is also the hometown of the disk drive.

A hard disk (also called a fixed ... The computer hard drive, once 14 in. or more across, is now no bigger than 3.5 or 5.5 in. in diameter, ... The very first disk drive was IBM’s RAMAC.

Inside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., sits an odd-looking, refrigerator-sized contraption that could have been created by an out-of-control set designer for "Lost in Space." ...

Shipped in September 1956, the first 5MB hard disk unit weighed over a ton (approximately 2,200 pounds) and was used in the IBM 305 RAMAC, the first commercial computer to feature a moving-head ...

Inside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, sits an odd-looking, refrigerator-sized contraption that could have been created by an out-of-control set designer for “Lost in ...

On Sept. 13, 1956, IBM launched the RAMAC (Random Access Memory for Accounting and Control) 305 and RAMAC 350, two models of a disk drive system that could store a whopping 5MB of data.