Fwd: [Electronics_101] On this day

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [Electronics_101] On this day Date: Thursday 13 September 2007 18:05 From: Bruce <hvekybd_willtrav at bellsouth.net> To: Electronics_101 at yahoogroups.com From Wikipedia, 1956 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956> - IBM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM> unveiled the 305 RAMAC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_305_RAMAC> (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), the first commercial computer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer> that used magnetic disk storage <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive>. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_305_RAMAC Though this would be interesting. Just one of the large boxes in the picture, hold almost as much as a DVD does today. Just show how far we have come. ------------------------------------------------------- -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin