The IBM 305 RAMAC was the first commercial computer that used a moving-head hard disk drive (magnetic disk storage) for secondary storage. The system...
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(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 September...
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RAMAC may refer to: IBM 305 RAMAC, a computing system introduced in 1956 IBM 350 RAMAC, a disk storage unit introduced in 1956 as a bundled component of...
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(IBM RAMAC 305), the direct ancestor of all the hard disk drives we use today. Even computer graphics began during the vacuum tube era with the IBM 740...
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products, including the IBM 700 series of computer systems, IBM 650, IBM 305 RAMAC with disk drive memory, and IBM 1401, positioned IBM as the world's leading...
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The IBM 370 printer was used on the IBM 305 RAMAC computer system, introduced by IBM on September 14, 1956. The 370 was connected to the 305 by a serial...
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entry. IBM 305: RAMAC: Random Access Method of Accounting and Control; 1956 IBM 305: Processing Unit IBM 323: IBM 305 Card Punch IBM 340: IBM 305 Power...
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standards. These included: IBM 650 (vacuum tube logic, decimal architecture, drum memory, business and scientific) IBM 305 RAMAC (vacuum tube logic, first...
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commercial stored-program computer, the vacuum tube based IBM 701, in 1952. The IBM 305 RAMAC introduced the hard disk drive in 1956. The company switched...
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LGP-30, Bendix G-15 and IBM 305 RAMAC computers used vacuum tubes and drum memory too, but they were quite different from the IBM 650. Instructions read...
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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. Subdivisions...
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as originally planned. "One of the more popular exhibits ... was the IBM RAMAC 305 computer. It could answer over 4,000 questions within a wide range of...
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that developed the 350 Disk Storage Unit, a major component of the IBM 305 RAMAC Computer. The magnetic disk drive represented a technological leap forward...
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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 is...
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305 may refer to: 305 (number) 305 AD, a year 305 BC, a year IBM 305 RAMAC, the first commercial computer to use a hard disk drive Lenovo IdeaPad 305...
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John Haanstra (category IBM employees)
leader in the development of the RAMAC 350 disk drive. He then became responsible for designing the 1956 IBM 305 RAMAC system which was the first commercial...
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ISBN 9780203494455. 305 RAMAC Random Access Method of Accounting and Control Manual of Operation (PDF). IBM. 1957. IBM 1301, Models 1 and 2, Disk Storage and IBM 1302...
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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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Alan Shugart (category IBM employees)
1951 as a field engineer at IBM. In 1955, he transferred to the IBM San Jose laboratory where he worked on the IBM 305 RAMAC. He rose through a series of...
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hard-disk drive, the IBM 305 RAMAC (1956), used forced air to maintain a 0.002 inch (51 μm) between the head and disk. The IBM 1301, introduced in 1961...
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Bautista Alvarado. RAMAC Park is named after the IBM 305 RAMAC, the first computer to use a disk drive, which was developed at the IBM Santa Teresa Lab...
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Plugboard (category IBM unit record equipment)
edge) first. IBM (1956). IBM Reference Manual: Functional Wiring Principles (PDF). 22-6275-0. IBM 305 RAMAC Manual of Operation IBM (1956). IBM Punched Card...
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Reynold B. Johnson (category IBM Fellows)
by Johnson developed disk data storage technology, which IBM released as the IBM 305 RAMAC. Although the first disk drive was crude by modern standards...
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cables. The first production IBM hard disk drive, the 350 disk storage, shipped in 1957 as a component of the IBM 305 RAMAC system. It was approximately...
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counter by Mr. Overbeck, January 8, 1942" RAMAC 305 - IBM Customer Engineering Manual of Instruction (PDF). IBM. 1959. […] The Overbeck ring is used to...
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was used by Eastern Air Lines. It competed mainly against the IBM 650 and the IBM 305 RAMAC and a total of 130 were manufactured. The UNIVAC II was an improvement...
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage. 1956...
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general-purpose electronic computer. IBM introduced the first hard disk drive in 1956, as a component of their 305 RAMAC computer system.: 6 Most digital...
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Taylor & Francis. p. 150. ISBN 9781884964473. Retrieved 4 June 2020. "RAMAC 305", IBM Customer Engineering Manual of Instruction (1959) Technical Education...
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design phase for the IBM Stretch computer. IBM 650 RAMAC (a decimal addressed machine) announcement "The 650 RAMAC combines the IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data...
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