• drive (FDD), are used. The IBM 350 disk storage unit, the first disk drive, was announced by IBM as a component of the IBM 305 RAMAC computer system on...
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    was IBM's follow-up to the Personal System/2 and PS/ValuePoint. Announced in October 1994 and withdrawn in October 2000, it was replaced by the IBM NetVista...
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    last vacuum tube computers that IBM built. It weighed over a ton. The IBM 350 disk system stored 5 million alphanumeric characters recorded as six data...
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    The IBM Thinkpad 350 series was a notebook computer series introduced in 1993 by IBM as part of their Thinkpad laptop series. It was the successor to the...
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    second set. Variants of the IBM 350 were the IBM 355, IBM 7300 and IBM 1405. In 1961, IBM announced, and in 1962 shipped, the IBM 1301 disk storage unit,...
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    production IBM 305 RAMAC system including IBM Model 350 disk storage. US Patent 3,503,060 issued March 24, 1970, and arising from the IBM RAMAC program...
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    is an IBM PC graphics adapter and de facto computer display standard from 1984 that superseded the CGA standard introduced with the original IBM PC, and...
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  • IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit in many ways but there are two substantial differences in that modern drives have one head per surface whereas the IBM 350 had...
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    first commercial digital disk storage device was the IBM 350 which shipped in 1956 as a part of the IBM 305 RAMAC computing system. The random-access, low-density...
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  • International Business Machines (IBM) is a multinational corporation specializing in computer technology and information technology consulting. Headquartered...
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    first developments was the IBM 350, the first commercial moving head hard disk drive. Launched in 1956, this saw use in the IBM 305 RAMAC computer system...
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    IBM 7340: IBM 7070/IBM 7074 hypertape (7074 only) IBM 7400: IBM 7070/IBM 7074 Printer IBM 7500: IBM 7070/IBM 7074 Card Reader IBM 7501: IBM 7070/IBM 7074...
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    synonymous with the unambiguous unit gibibyte. Since the first disk drive, the IBM 350, disk drive manufacturers expressed hard drive capacities using decimal...
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  • 2011-07-06. "IBM Archives – IBM 350 disk storage unit". IBM. 23 January 2003. Archived from the original on April 9, 2005. Retrieved 2011-07-04. "IBM Archives:...
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    computers, the Professional 325 (PRO-325), the Professional 350 (PRO-350), and the Rainbow 100 to market, a year after IBM launched their personal computer....
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    Display and Printer Adapter, MDPA) is IBM's standard video display card and computer display standard for the IBM PC introduced in 1981. The MDA does not...
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  • device bandwidths Solid-state drive RAM disk RAID E.g., the obsolete 1956 IBM 350 stored 5 million six-bit characters, larger than contemporary 1.44 and...
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    may have been introduced into the data. The first disk drive, the 1957 IBM 350 disk storage, had ten 100 character sectors per track; each character was...
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    IBM PC–compatible refers to a class of computers that are technically similar to the original IBM PC from 1981 (as well as the IBM XT and AT) of computer...
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  • and Subsystem Data: 59. Retrieved 2010-01-22. IBM Corporation (2003-01-23). "IBM 350 disk storage unit". IBM Archives. Archived from the original on 2005-04-09...
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  • the 1995–1996 timeframe by leading semiconductor companies like Intel and IBM. SGS-Thomson 5LM MTI VR4300i (1995), used in the Nintendo 64 game console...
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  • The acquisition of IBM Personal Systems Group, the PC business arm of International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation, by Lenovo was announced on December...
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    The IBM 5100 Portable Computer is one of the first portable computers, introduced in September 1975, six years before the IBM Personal Computer, and eight...
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  • "head" used to read and write the data. In 1956 the first hard drive, the IBM 350, had an areal density of 2,000 bit/in2. Since then, the increase in density...
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    PS/2 is IBM's second generation of personal computers. Released in 1987, it officially replaced the IBM PC, XT, AT, and PC Convertible in IBM's lineup...
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    The IBM Personal Computer AT (model 5170, abbreviated as IBM AT or PC/AT) was released in 1984 as the fourth model in the IBM Personal Computer line,...
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    The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the...
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  • the contents stored on it, was denominated a "file". For example, the IBM 350 disk drives were denominated "disk files". The introduction, c. 1961, by...
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    graphics standard, first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, which became ubiquitous in the IBM PC compatible industry within three years...
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  • The IBM Personal Computer Basic, commonly shortened to IBM BASIC, is a programming language first released by IBM with the IBM Personal Computer, Model...
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