27 May
2005
27 May
'05
1:29 a.m.
Tom wrote:
certainly, IBM did not invent the disk drive. They may
have
commercialized it first, but I doubt that even.
I'd be very interested to hear of any working magnetic disk drive,
commerical or otherwise, predating the IBM RAMAC.
Hand-wave -- it was obvious.
In hindsight it looks obvious. I'm not convinced that it was
obvious 50 years ago.
Eric