Date in year · 1956 · The 1950s
On September 13, 1956, the IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage. César, Anne Glover, Beatrice Ask would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · September 13, 1956
The IBM 305 RAMAC was the first commercial computer that used a moving-head hard disk drive for secondary storage. S. Navy and at private corporations.
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1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1956th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 956th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1950s decade.
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First computer to use magnetic disk storage
The IBM 305 RAMAC was the first commercial computer that used a moving-head hard disk drive for secondary storage. S. Navy and at private corporations.
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