In 1956 IBM introduced the RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), the great grandfather of the most widely used desktop storage device, the Hard Disk Drive. Oh what a long way we've come! This behomth was the size of two large refrigerators, weighed a full ton, required an air compressor to protect the heads, and it's total capacity was only 5 megabytes!

 The Hard Disk That Changed the World