Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Question - 511

Today's question is courtesy Anand. This is a picture taken in 1956. What is being loaded onto the plane?

Answer: This is the very first computer hard disk which had a massive 5 MB storage. Shravan, Raghu, Krithi, Aravind, Jamie, v.chandrashekar, Karthik, neuron.spike, Arvind, iamtheicebox, sumo_ftb, Renuka, Adi, Kaushik, Aaslesh, Akshay, Matti Tapaninen and Nihar got it. Well done.

20 comments:

Shravan said...

5MB hard disk by IBM

Anonymous said...

The first black box?
-UDit

Anonymous said...

The first airplane black box is being loaded.

- Rajesh K

Raghu said...

first computer hard disk (5MB)

Anonymous said...

5MB Hard Disc Drive in 1956 were of the size of a cargo container.
Krithi

Anonymous said...

5 MB harddisk by IBM - Aravind

Jamie said...

5MB Hard Disk in 1956

Anonymous said...

ibm ramac computer hard disk




-------------------v.chandrashekar

Karthik said...

5 MB HDD

neuron.spike said...

IBM's 5 MB hard-disk

Arvind said...

the first ever hard disk. with 5mb storage.

iamtheicebox said...

This is the first computer developed by IBM. I'm not sure of the name. I think its IBM RAMAC. It had a 5MB storage which weighed over a ton.

sumo_ftb said...

An early IBM hard disk??

Renuka said...

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data. Makes you appreciate a thumb drive!

Adi said...

hard drive of the early IBM computers

Kaushik said...

It's a hard disk drive back in 1956... with 5 MB of storage.

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first 'SUPER' computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a 'whopping' 5 MB of data.

Unknown said...

IBM's 305 RAMAC. First to have a hard disk drive. It stored 5mb of data

Akshay said...

It's a hard disk drive back in 1956… with 5 MB of storage. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first 'SUPER' computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a 'whopping' 5 MB of data.

matti tapaninen said...

IBM 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

Nihar said...

world's first hard drive
5 mb
IBM