NEW YORK, N.Y.—Built around the IBM disc memory, a random access memory unit has a storage capacity of 5,000,000 digits. Any of these digits can be reached directly without scanning through ...
The image is a hard disk drive withonly 5 MBof storage (we get 16 GB + nowadays in our USB memory sticks—that’s 3,200 of these 1956 hard drives!) The good news was that it replaced punch cards 1 ...
Ever really wonder just how far storage has come? Think about this the next time you strap on your 8GB iPod Nano. IBM's RAMAC or "Random Access Method of Accounting and Control" had a whole 5MB of ...