A Half Century of Hard Drives

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If the first hard drive was considered "full height," we are now at least at 1/100th height...


http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6114138.html?tag=nl.e622

 

[P5-133XL]

It's hard to believe that HD's are 50 years old. It makes me feel old...

 

[Brown_Sugar]

Wow it's amazing to see the history of hard drive.
It's been 50 years.......Happy b'day HD Great Grandpa.

 

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More on the hard drive's half-century anniversary, including in-depth interviews with the original HD's (RAMAC) creators and more pictures:

...so engineers from leading drive manufacturer Shugart & Associates met with Wang engineers in a dark bar in Boston and decided the next disk drive size should be 5 ¼ inches -- the size of a cocktail napkin. "Those became sacred dimensions for the next 10 years,"...

http://www.computerworld.com/action...ewArticleBasic&articleId=9003261&pageNumber=1

 

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Article headline for new 3-page article:

Happy 50th, hard drive. But will you make it to 60?
Threatening HDD, flash memory will soon be available in 64GB
capacities -- with larger devices coming



http://www.computerworld.com/action...ewArticleBasic&articleId=9003646&pageNumber=1