November 1956 IBM aanounces the worlds First hard drive
.modernmechanix.com/1956-first-hard-drive-5mb/ interesting OLD archive
Forum Discussion
I'm really surprised to hear the first disc was so big, capacity-wise. The first one I worked with was in the 60s, from Digital Equipment, 32k 12-bit words. When we went to a megabyte platter, that felt like sci-fi. My college prof talked in terms of terabyte capacity. I thought he was a fruitcake, but he got the last laugh.
