Tip - History of the hard drive

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The first hard drive was invented in early 1956, at the request of the US Air Force, by the company IBM. It was called the RAMAC 305 (with the name standing for Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), a group of 50 aluminium disks each 61 cm...

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