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IBM manufactured magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive (FDD) were invented by IBM and as such IBM's employees were responsible for many of the innovations in these products and their technologies. โฆ See more
IBM 350
The IBM 350 disk storage unit, the first disk drive, was announced by IBM as a component of the IBM 305 RAMAC computer system on September 14, 1956. Simultaneously a โฆ See moreThis section lists IBM manufactured HDDs offered both as an OEM product and for attachment to IBMs small systems such as the System/3, โฆ See more
On October 17, 1994, IBM's Storage Systems division announced three new families of hard disk drives, the Travelstar 21โ2-inch family for โฆ See more
IBM 2302
The IBM 2302 is the System/360 version of the 1302, with track formatting in accordance with โฆ See moreAnother important IBM innovation is the floppy disk drive. IBM first introduced the 8-inch FDD in 1971 as a read only program load device. โฆ See more
IBM in some of its operating systems classifies HDDs and FDDs as DASDs, direct access storage devices. Other technologies so classified include:
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WebJun 20, 2011 · History: First HDD 55 Years Ago From IBM at 100. Ramac 350: usable capacity of 3.75MB, $34,500. By Jean Jacques Maleval | June 20, 2011 at 3:25 pm. IBM Corp. is just celebrating its 100th anniversary โฆ