Seagate ST-506: The Daddy of Modern Hard Drives
The first hard drive, from 1956, was housed in a computer the size of two refrigerators. But in less than a quarter of the century, engineers shrunk hard drives to 5.25″. The first, holding 5MB, was Seagate’s ST-506. https://gizmodo.com/ibm-305-ramac-the-grandaddy-of-modern-hard-drives-5494858 In 1980, manufacturers were still dedicating significant resources to pushing the upper limits of data storage…
