Remembering RAMAC

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Paul Koning wrote:

>  Al> Or magnetic drums, which did NOT have the access time problems of
>  Al> tape or cards (but, unfortunately weren't an IBM invention)
>
> Did the drum come before RAMAC?

Yes.  Many years (I believe about six).

> An obvious difference is that drums, being head per track devices,
> always had rather low capacity.

And disks are much more efficient than drums anyway.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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