{"id":726,"date":"2010-05-29T17:28:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T10:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/29\/what-is-it\/"},"modified":"2010-05-29T17:28:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T10:28:03","slug":"what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"What is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/521c83348345.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/kanok.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/thumb.jpg\" width=\"389\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Guess what it is?<\/p>\n<h3>This is 5MB HDD!!!<\/h3>\n<p>In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD).&#160; The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Currie Munce, research vice president for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hitachi_Global_Storage_Technologies\">Hitachi Global Storage Technologies<\/a> (which has acquired IBM&#8217;s hard disk drive business), stated in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wall_Street_Journal\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> interview<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_305_RAMAC#cite_note-4\">[5]<\/a><\/sup> that the RAMAC unit weighed over a ton, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes. 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