1945 – Reynold Johnson put 50 – 24 inch disk platters into a series and the first hard drive was born. The IBM RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) ran at 1,200 rpm and held 5 MB of data. The cost for this drive was $10,000 / MB.
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