The One Ton Ibm Ramac Magnetic Disk Drive

These mainframe computers with a size of studio apartments required their own climate controlled rooms cost millions of dollars and required a team of operators. Just 15 years before the biggest breakthrough in data storage the one ton ibm ramac ramac magnetic disk drive had to be delivered to customers via especially equipped bowing 707 jet. So everything they just described there you have more power on the phone your iPhone that you're probably listening to this on I mean, let's listen to that again. These big computers have evolved over the previous two decades from slow Giant monsters to somewhat smaller and flitter early generation micro computers The size of a couple refrigerators and they only cost a few hundred thousand dollars How crazy