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Alex Eisenhut:
I'm sure we've all heard of it or at least seen that picture of a RAMAC being hoisted on a cargo plane.

But I never saw the IBM film about from the 1950s.



Suddenly YouTube recommended this to me, the title doesn't make it very searchable.
Zbig:
Wow, thank you. That was a fascinating watch for more than one reason. I find the style of these productions peculiar. The "penguin in a snow globe" scene was particularly deep :D
Tom45:
Thanks for that.

That brings back memories. The local IBM office had a demo unit at one time. It was loaded with items about each day in history. You could specify a day and it would type out what happened on that day. I chose July 4, 1776. So it went back at least that far.

A whopping 5 mega bytes of storage. What a deal.

The film brought out what it was like to come up with something totally new from a blank sheet of paper. A totally different problem than just improving something that already exists.
Bill158:
Thanks also for interesting video.
At around 4:40 into the video did you see what appears to be a TEK plugin for a 500 series scope on the desk?  I wonder why it was sitting there?  No scope to be seen anywhere around them at that time, but later on in the video there were 500 series scopes.  But exactly when was the first 500 series plugin scope manufactured by TEK?
In looking at catalogs it looks like the first ones were the 531 and 535 in the August 1954 catalog.
Bill
aqarwaen:
how long it would taken to write all 5mb space?and how fast write and read speed was approx?
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