Introduced by IBM on September 13, 1956, RAMAC stood for “random access method of accounting and control” and used a moving head HDD (magnetic disk storage) for secondary storage. So large that it had ...

The computer itself was vast -- about 30 feet by 50 feet (9m x 15m) -- and the storage device itself, the very first commercial hard disk drive, was a 1.5-meter cube.

The Disk Storage Unit was introduced on Sept. 4, 1956, and the 305 RAMAC Computer was introduced on Sept. 13, 1956. That first computing unit had a total memory storage capacity of a whopping 5MB ...

Announced on September 4, 1956, the IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit came with fifty 24-inch disks and a total capacity of 5 megabytes; its first customer was United Airlines’ reservations system ...

An IBM San Jose research hub that produced many cutting-edge breakthroughs will close and shift its workers to another IBM ...

IBM's FlashSystem C200 aims to replace HDDs with high-capacity flash storage It delivers 1.1PB raw capacity, 2.3PB effective, with 200,000 IOPS performance This flash option is optimized for ...

IBM created the floppy drive as a means of read-only magnetic storage in 1972. Floppy disks originally came in a size of 203.2mm, which is close enough to 8 inches for that to be the moniker used.

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. ... originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a medium for loading microcode into the System/370 mainframe during the booting ...

More than 40 years after arriving in Tucson, computing giant IBM is still churning out innovations in data-storage technology from its labs at the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park ...

IBM created the floppy drive as a means of read-only magnetic storage in 1972. Floppy disks originally came in a size of 203.2mm, which is close enough to 8 inches for that to be the moniker used.

IBM's latest advance in high-level data storage shows Tucson is still an important center of innovation after more than 40 years.