Fwd: [Electronics_101] On this day

[Roy J. Tellason]

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Subject: [Electronics_101] On this day
Date: Thursday 13 September 2007 18:05
From: Bruce <hvekybd_willtrav at bellsouth.net>
To: Electronics_101 at yahoogroups.com

 From Wikipedia,

1956 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956> - IBM
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM> unveiled the 305 RAMAC
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_305_RAMAC> (Random Access Method of
Accounting and Control), the first commercial computer
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer> that used magnetic disk storage
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive>.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_305_RAMAC

Though this would be interesting.   Just one of the large boxes in the
picture, hold almost as much as a DVD does today.   Just show how far we
have come.

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