What was hard disk initially called
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Explanation:
IBM made the first commercial hard disk drive-based computer and called it RAMAC—short for Random Access Method of Accounting And Control. Its storage system was called the IBM 350. RAMAC was big—it required an entire room to operate. The hard disk drive storage system alone was about the size of two refrigerators. Inside were stacked 50 24 inch platters.
For that, RAMAC customers ended up with less than 5MB—that’s right, megabytes of storage. IBM’s marketing people didn’t want to make RAMAC store any more data than that. They had no idea how to convince customers they’d need more storage than that.
IBM customers forked over $3,200 for the privilege of accessing and storing that information. A MONTH. (IBM leased its systems.) That’s equivalent to almost $28,000 per month in 2016.
Sixty years ago, data storage cost $640 per megabyte, per month. At IBM’s 1956 rates for storage, a new iPhone 7 would cost you about $20.5 million a month. RAMAC was a lot harder to stick in your pocket, too.
Explanation:
IBM made the first commercial hard disk drive-based computer and called it RAMAC—short for Random Access Method of Accounting And Control. Its storage system was called the IBM 350. RAMAC was big—it required an entire room to operate. The hard disk drive storage system alone was about the size of two refrigerators.