Monday, September 18, 2006
Forget 50 years of TV!!! How about 50 years of hard drives
50 years of high speed computing in Australia and 50 years of the Hard Drive to store the data on and now in this modern day and age, music and television shows both at the broadcasters and the receivers ends in titems like broadcast operation computers and Tevo reception units.
I look at the my 10mb hard drive that I now use as a door stop, the drive actually still functions but I haven’t fired it up for some time. It stands 5 inches high, and is about 12 to 14cm long and weights a kilogram and a half. This drive was created in the mid 1980’s. However, the original hard drive first created 50 years ago was made up of 50 disks 24 inches in diameter and stored a massive 5mb in data. The machine stood as high as a fridge and weighed a tone
The original drive was a bit of a tourist attraction as You could see the head assembly moving back and forth, It was quite noisy too. Heaps has changed since IBM released the IBM 350 RAMAC drive now we have drives that are as small as 2.5 inches and millimeters high which hold a whopping 300gb. However, terabyte drives go on sale by the end of year and these drives hold 2000 times the size the original did. IBM’s hard drive business was bought by Hitachi, are along with IBM marking this historic event.
I look at the my 10mb hard drive that I now use as a door stop, the drive actually still functions but I haven’t fired it up for some time. It stands 5 inches high, and is about 12 to 14cm long and weights a kilogram and a half. This drive was created in the mid 1980’s. However, the original hard drive first created 50 years ago was made up of 50 disks 24 inches in diameter and stored a massive 5mb in data. The machine stood as high as a fridge and weighed a tone
The original drive was a bit of a tourist attraction as You could see the head assembly moving back and forth, It was quite noisy too. Heaps has changed since IBM released the IBM 350 RAMAC drive now we have drives that are as small as 2.5 inches and millimeters high which hold a whopping 300gb. However, terabyte drives go on sale by the end of year and these drives hold 2000 times the size the original did. IBM’s hard drive business was bought by Hitachi, are along with IBM marking this historic event.
# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 10:46 PM 
