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In San Jose, CA, Reynold B. Johnson ran a bootleg project using IBM facilities and funds to produce what was considered a unrealistic, non-profit, product. The Hard Drive. San
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Johnson had decided to concentrate on disks, which everybody considered an enormous problem. Management did not often oversee the facilities, leaving Johnson and his staff free to work on their “pet” project. When Headquarters did find out, management sent stern warnings to stop work on the hard disk due to “budget difficulties. He took with him some 200 IBM employees. started work on disk drives, built their first in 1960. 1956, Midwestern bought out Data Storage Devices and Magnecord, producing the M-3000.
Since these breakthroughs, the hard drive has soared in storage capacity, and decreased in size.
The RAMAC may have been the first disk drive, but it was far from the last. Nor was IBM the only business producing them.
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