cm0002@piefed.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 2 months agoIBM announced the world’s first HDD, the 3.75MB RAMAC 350 disk storage unit, 69 years ago today — unit weighed more than a ton, 50 platters ran at 1,200 RPMwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up1171arrow-down10
arrow-up1171arrow-down1external-linkIBM announced the world’s first HDD, the 3.75MB RAMAC 350 disk storage unit, 69 years ago today — unit weighed more than a ton, 50 platters ran at 1,200 RPMwww.tomshardware.comcm0002@piefed.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square17linkfedilink
minus-squareTrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down3·2 months ago RAMAC 350 would allow businesses to get rid of their old tub files full of punch cards, and many human filing operatives. For anyone wondering how it made financial sense, as usual, the goal was to replace expensive, touchy, uppity humans with machines.
For anyone wondering how it made financial sense, as usual, the goal was to replace expensive, touchy, uppity humans with machines.
I hate uppity humans.