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50 years of Hard discs

category international | sci-tech | news report author Wednesday September 13, 2006 22:02author by o as if Report this post to the editors

On this day 50 years ago IBM unveiled its RAMAC (Random Access Memory Accounting Machine). A computer machine which weighed several tonnes & occupied the same space as a bunch of fridge freezers. It was the first hard drive which could be searched & accessed without starting from the "beginning" of the data flow & running to the end, such as one must do with a magnetic tape.

Between 13/9/56 and its withdrawl from the market in the mid 1960's IBM sold over 6,000 of the units each of which could store 5 megabytes of information.

A lot has changed in the last 50 years.

If you don't really know what has changed it's time you learnt what a megabyte is.

Your mobile phone might, but your neighbour's kid's MP3 definitely will have more memory.

And today IBM announced the arrival of a supercomputer which will see the first "petaflop" - one billion operations per second.

within 50 years that will be normal consumer thinking power.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Billion, eh?     Peter Flop    Thu Sep 14, 2006 02:03 
   More on 50 years of hard disks     Terence    Thu Sep 14, 2006 14:12 
   ooopsie I forgot my international convertion rates.     o as if    Thu Sep 14, 2006 18:29 
   o as if I tried to show off     and revealed that I didn't know anything at all    Thu Sep 14, 2006 18:36 
   Would you just write a better explanation as an article instead?     o as if    Thu Sep 14, 2006 18:50 
   You're even further off the mark now     Peter Flop    Fri Sep 15, 2006 03:09 
   you still haven't explained what a petaflop is.     o as if    Fri Sep 15, 2006 18:37 
   More lies from the terminally confused     Killer Byte    Fri Sep 15, 2006 18:51 
   Billion GB vsUS and Petaflop definition     WoWoW    Fri Sep 15, 2006 18:55 
 10   thnka to the last commentator for clarifying the billion in petaflop problem.     o as if    Fri Sep 15, 2006 19:01 
 11   billion / flops / memory     show off    Fri Sep 15, 2006 19:08 
 12   Not even the first petaflop computer     Complete Flop    Fri Sep 15, 2006 19:56 
 13   It gets better...     Peter Flop    Mon Sep 18, 2006 13:25 


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