11 Jun
2026
11 Jun
'26
1:34 p.m.
On Thu, 11 Jun 2026, Tom Gardner via cctalk wrote:
Ramac had fifty 2 foot diameter double sided
platters, and could hold a
total of about 5MB.'
The IBM 350 disk storage capacity was 5 million 6-bit characters == 3.75
MB.
Thank you, I couldn't remember how many bytes per track to calculate
accurately. They might not have been multiples of 128? Long, long ago, I
was told 100 bytes per sector?