Written by This striking 1956 image captures a groundbreaking moment in tech history—the transportation of a 5 MB hard drive for the IBM 305 RAMAC, the world’s first commercial hard disk drive. Weighing over 2,000 pounds and the size of a refrigerator, this massive machine had to be loaded into a plane for delivery. At the time, it could store just 5 megabytes—about the size of one high-resolution photo today—yet it was a revolutionary leap forward from punch cards and magnetic tape.The IBM 305 RAMAC wasn’t just bulky—it was visionary. Built with 24-inch spinning disks, it allowed businesses faster access to data than ever before, and marked the dawn of modern data storage. While today we carry terabytes in our pockets, this colossal drive paved the way, proving that the future of computing would be written in data—and lots of it.
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