cm0002@piefed.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 4 days agoIBM announced the world’s first HDD, the 3.75MB RAMAC 350 disk storage unit, 69 years ago today — unit weighed more than a ton, 50 platters ran at 1,200 RPMwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1171arrow-down10
arrow-up1171arrow-down1external-linkIBM announced the world’s first HDD, the 3.75MB RAMAC 350 disk storage unit, 69 years ago today — unit weighed more than a ton, 50 platters ran at 1,200 RPMwww.tomshardware.comcm0002@piefed.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square19linkfedilink
minus-squareTrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down4·4 days ago RAMAC 350 would allow businesses to get rid of their old tub files full of punch cards, and many human filing operatives. For anyone wondering how it made financial sense, as usual, the goal was to replace expensive, touchy, uppity humans with machines.
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoNo, it wasn’t. It was to speed access to data. Unless you have some evidence the researchers who work with electromechanics at the time were thinking “how can we replace humans”, rather than “how can we represent 80 columns of data electromechanically?” No need for this nonsensical hyperbole.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoI mean, I’m sure cost savings on labour were noticed as well. And that’s not a bad thing.
For anyone wondering how it made financial sense, as usual, the goal was to replace expensive, touchy, uppity humans with machines.
No, it wasn’t.
It was to speed access to data. Unless you have some evidence the researchers who work with electromechanics at the time were thinking “how can we replace humans”, rather than “how can we represent 80 columns of data electromechanically?”
No need for this nonsensical hyperbole.
I mean, I’m sure cost savings on labour were noticed as well. And that’s not a bad thing.
I hate uppity humans.