The new hire -- the young guy with the glasses and crew cut, would be in his late eighties today. Wouldn't it be wonderful to find one of these people today and hear the stories they would have to tell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See, THIS is how informative videos should always be made. Now most of what's our there is mentally jarring, with video sped up, rapid scene cuts, flashy graphics, transitions, loud audio static added in between, shrill techno, hip hop, hard rock/metal music added, and other hype. This I can relax to and take it all in at a naturally human pace. This is what keeps me interested 👍
Go back to 1952 and show them a smartphone, the people back then were so good at mathematics that i bet you we would be way more advanced today if that was given to a person of the 1950s
Its funny how I'm watching this on a computer that can fit in my pocket but is like 100 times more power then that thing lol. Can't wait to see what's in another 50 years.
"Sadly" nowadays the evolution is slowing down. You can still use a 10 years old computer to play actual video games (you might need a newer graphic card and it will be laggy, but I think that it would be playable), and basically anything else. In 2006, a 1996 PC was already almost unusable for many tasks. I think that you were still able to surf the web, but it was pretty darn slow at this point in comparison of a brand new computer. The same can also been said between a 1986 computer and the 1996 computer, and so on ... At leas now, computers are munch munch cheaper than in the 80's and the 90's and if you're taking care of it and that you don't take the lowest-end one, you can keep it for at least 10 years I think
In my opinion the HDD is one of the most sophisticated innovations of all time! I remember back in college when I did a paper and presentation of the IBM corporation...
I love the history of computers, this is quite impressive for 1956! Its amazing how HDDs have shrunk over the years, in 1956 we have a HDD the size of a washing machine and only 5mb, and in the early 2000's a 60 gb HDD that can fit in an ipod! And modern day we have 1 TB sd cards and SSDs! Soo very interesting. I love computers. Its a shame that IBM stopped making computers.
Technology is so incredible. We’ve come so far since then and I can only dream of how far we’ll come in the future. We look back at this and we’re amazed at how old things look when all the things we use now will be old someday. This stuff just fascinates me so much. I love it.
1:20 That is about as 1950's marketing as you can get! Cut to a scene of the patio out front with a pond, with an IBM hard drive sitting in the middle of it.
This is a good example of why IBM dominated the PC market in business anyway during the 80's. People remembered IBM created the first business computer, so it was just assumed by business that IBM knew better than Apple.
+WaybackTECH Apple had no products in the enterprise market in the 80s. Of course IBM "knew better", any amount of knowledge is better than zero. So of course Apple wasn't the competition in the enterprise, it was still the old players from the minicomputer era like Honeywell, DEC and HP, and newcomers like Sun.
I was looking for a video showing the first hard drive,; thanks for that; I did the calculations; it took 105 man years to make it; some things have to have a team.
When data was "just" text 5Mb was a LOT. This was DAMN impressive for 1950s tech. I installed an external 5Mb hard drive for my TRS-80 Model III in 1983. Even in 1983 it cost several times what the actual computer cost. (Hell, It cost what my CAR cost!) and THAT was almost 30 years after RAMAC!
Eyo, we have 1TB Micro SD cards now. What a way we’ve come. Got this video recommended today. 10:42PM CST on 1/20/2021 while on my sofa couch in the living room.
In the 90s I remember worked in a university lab that was once used for maintenance of some of the first vacuum tube computers (starting with the second one in fact). Hunting though the cabinets and storage rooms you would being fine piles of old equipment dating back to these days. Random bits of computing history used as door stops, hand painted platters wedged under a wobbly desk leg, hand woven core memory tossed in boxes of random tools.
Then in 1986 the 41 megabyte jewelry box sized drive is born. 1990, bye bye stepper motor heads, all mainstream hard drives have voice coil heads. In 2007, 1 terabyte 3.5 inch hard drives for 400 dollars anyone. 2013, helium filled hard drives were introduced starting at 6TB. In 2013, ultra thin laptops and pretty much all new custom built gaming rigs have M.2 NVME SSDs, SSDs are lightning fast.
Amazing how they show the invention of the hard drive, now we store information on a small chip rather than on spinning platters, imagine going to the electronics store and buying a storage device the size of a fridge that can store 1 jpeg file or 1 mp3 file!
i think they meant a character as in a letter, number or anything else, which is 8 bits, 8bits = 1 byte, so 5million characters * 1 byte = 5 million bytes, or 5mb
Each character was 7 bits, composed of two zone bits ("X" and "O"), four BCD bits for the value of the digit, and an odd parity bit ("R") in the following format: X O 8 4 2 1 R
Yes, it worked out but it is sad and speaks volumes about humans that the primary focus of this was money/greed and not the scientific endeavors high density data storage would/made possible.
Just think, we think we are modern today, as we did 20 years ago. What will we think 20 years from now? And, technology complexity increases exponentially. Scary!
Why pay $50,000 for 5 megabytes on something the size of a washing machine, when you can pay $50 for a 128 GIGABYTE SD card? Technology has changed so much over the years. Imagine if we could time travel to the days of the IBM 350 and show them a 128 GB SD card
I'm not sure that's true. I have a Pi 3 based NAS with 10TB of space and even with almost every file I've created or downloaded over the last 20 years transferred to it I still have over 6TB left over which I'll probably never fill in my lifetime. Business is one thing but for most ordinary people hard drives have reached the point where they are bigger than they'll ever need. I don't think petabyte hard drives for home use will ever be a thing.
Imagine all that for 5 megabytes of storage capacity! Now you can have 128 *gigabytes* of static storage on a chip the size of your little fingernail, and it's reliable (i.e micro-SD).😮 We've come a long way baby!
If only the guys that made RAMAC could see where we are now. 5 TRILLION bytes of data on a single device the size of a stack of post-it notes that you can pick up for a little over 200$.
LOL! And back then, they thought that computers would be able to help us eliminate having to use paper for everything. Nowadays there's more paper than ever!!! LOL!!
Way back then, only the biggest and richest companies can afford a system that performs the simplest calculation, computation and data searching operations. Nowadays, we have computers at almost every home which are millions or billions of times more efficient and more powerful than what they had back then and connected to the whole world via high speed internet, but we use that technology so we can "shoot", "frag" and "kill" each other in an online game then engage in a trash talk right after the game...
