Wayback Wednesday: The Development of Hard Drive Storage

Circa 1956-57. The vid is quite long, but I’ve queued it up to the good part when they show all the *ahem* disk action…

From an educational standpoint, the video is pretty good – if you are an uber-geek (I’m looking at you, mirror) then you should really check it out.

  • sacke

    The first hard drive’s arm was powered by compressed air!

  • http://www.facebook.com/Kalanac John Chapman

    Lol “We’ve created this awesome machine! What shall we use it for?” “No idea!”

    Spin on 30 years

    “Solitaire!”