RAMAC: First Disk Drive with Movable Head and Random Access
Machine Organization Accomplishment | 1956 - 1958
IBM researchers: William Goddard, John Lynott, Louis Stevens
Where the work was done: San Jose
What we accomplished: RAMAC was the first computer to use a random-access disk drive — the 350 Disk Storage Unit — the progenitor of every hard disk drive made in the more than half century since that time.
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