We laugh today at a 5meg drive the size of a washing machine.. but it really was quite an amazing achievement. Real pioneering days.

@alandouglas2789

9 жыл бұрын

Shut up Meg

@davidbandel9203

9 жыл бұрын

Alan Douglas dumb dumb says what?

@burg3r

7 жыл бұрын

jq747 why did you copy and paste

@SwordSweeper127

7 жыл бұрын

jq747 true, if that did not exist the 10TB drives nowadays will not exist too

@FaidAlfarisi

6 жыл бұрын

100 years later they'll laugh at our current technology

See, THIS is how informative videos should always be made. Now most of what's our there is mentally jarring, with video sped up, rapid scene cuts, flashy graphics, transitions, loud audio static added in between, shrill techno, hip hop, hard rock/metal music added, and other hype. This I can relax to and take it all in at a naturally human pace. This is what keeps me interested 👍

The new hire -- the young guy with the glasses and crew cut, would be in his late eighties today. Wouldn't it be wonderful to find one of these people today and hear the stories they would have to tell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From that behemoth, to a micro SD card!!! we've come a long way baby!

@rogueanuerz

3 жыл бұрын

1 tb on pinky

@iremiabliss

3 жыл бұрын

@@rogueanuerz you replied to 6 years old comment

@SlofSi

3 жыл бұрын

@@iremiabliss wigga

@christineayres5339

3 жыл бұрын

Go back to 1952 and show them a smartphone, the people back then were so good at mathematics that i bet you we would be way more advanced today if that was given to a person of the 1950s

@Good_Luck_8619

3 жыл бұрын

@@christineayres5339 even if u go back to 70s-80s they’d think it’s a calculator ffs !

Its funny how I'm watching this on a computer that can fit in my pocket but is like 100 times more power then that thing lol. Can't wait to see what's in another 50 years.

@_MaxHeadroom_

9 жыл бұрын

ALOT more than 100 times.

@Dxceor2486

7 жыл бұрын

"Sadly" nowadays the evolution is slowing down. You can still use a 10 years old computer to play actual video games (you might need a newer graphic card and it will be laggy, but I think that it would be playable), and basically anything else. In 2006, a 1996 PC was already almost unusable for many tasks. I think that you were still able to surf the web, but it was pretty darn slow at this point in comparison of a brand new computer. The same can also been said between a 1986 computer and the 1996 computer, and so on ... At leas now, computers are munch munch cheaper than in the 80's and the 90's and if you're taking care of it and that you don't take the lowest-end one, you can keep it for at least 10 years I think

@ryantexada9269

6 жыл бұрын

Not power... storage and way more than 100 times

@js0988

3 жыл бұрын

Unless it's an iPhone then it's a billion times worse!

@mrkitty777

3 жыл бұрын

In 50 years a lot of people will use pencil and paper again. Oil is estimated to last only 42 years.

My boss bought a Tandy 1 meg hdd in 1981 He was so proud of it..The size of a large turntable.

@clarionflyer

3 жыл бұрын

I still have mine in the basement.

@jamesslick4790

2 жыл бұрын

He had every right to be proud of it. It likely cost the price of a decent motorcycle! My 5mb drive cost the same as the (used) car I had in 1983!

This is nothing short of amazing! This is 1 example of how computers and devices got where they are today.

@brentfisher902

6 жыл бұрын

Hard work and brains like this aren't available for purchase in Orc.

that spinning death wheel ...dont wanna get your tie in that

@computeraidedworld1148

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder now it there were any deaths from these mainframes and their components.

In my opinion the HDD is one of the most sophisticated innovations of all time! I remember back in college when I did a paper and presentation of the IBM corporation...

It is because of their research and accomplishments that we have what we have today.

@b43xoit

15 күн бұрын

Also the Winchester disk, built at IBM.

I love the history of computers, this is quite impressive for 1956! Its amazing how HDDs have shrunk over the years, in 1956 we have a HDD the size of a washing machine and only 5mb, and in the early 2000's a 60 gb HDD that can fit in an ipod! And modern day we have 1 TB sd cards and SSDs! Soo very interesting. I love computers. Its a shame that IBM stopped making computers.

@specialopsdave

Жыл бұрын

And 20tb HDDs

Without IBM ,Microsoft would have never been

@renatoigmed

4 жыл бұрын

popular computing is like Thanos: inevitable. if not for IBM or Microsoft would be other companies.

@Matrixpandagamer

4 жыл бұрын

Neither would Apple. o_O

@Ihaveanamenowtaken

3 жыл бұрын

I’d say Busicom and Intel.

@Ihaveanamenowtaken

3 жыл бұрын

I’d say Busicom and Intel.

@Good_Luck_8619

3 жыл бұрын

True story told here 👍😊

Technology is so incredible. We’ve come so far since then and I can only dream of how far we’ll come in the future. We look back at this and we’re amazed at how old things look when all the things we use now will be old someday. This stuff just fascinates me so much. I love it.

1:11 the man has a flash disk on his hand ! :)

@gavincurtis

8 жыл бұрын

+владимир М lol. Another day at work. Most people wear them around their necks on a lanyard.

@ffgille

7 жыл бұрын

LOL

@fordxbgtfalcon

3 жыл бұрын

@@gavincurtis I wore mine around my neck all the way to 1999.

Electronic equiment looked cooler back then than it does today

Hard Drive manufactured in San Jose, wow that lets you know how old long ago the video was made.

the music makes this video like a horror movie. lol

@virbricky

3 жыл бұрын

The 50s were a horror movie

@Alexagrigorieff

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the Twilight Zone

1:20 That is about as 1950's marketing as you can get! Cut to a scene of the patio out front with a pond, with an IBM hard drive sitting in the middle of it.

Wow, that's one heck of a disk platter. Remarkable to know how far we've come along in terms of technology.

@HelloKittyFanMan.

9 жыл бұрын

How many exabytes would we have in that drive now if we still used that many platters that big with today's super-high density?

@The_Ballo

8 жыл бұрын

+TheArmaldo That's nothing. Think about how they had to miniaturize those lab technicians and oscilloscopes to fit in the S.M.A.R.T. chip

@HelloKittyFanMan.

8 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, The Ball!

My first hard drive was 40 Meg and cost $400. But it was so cool to have and operate and now we are basically beyond hard drives. Soooo cool.

@emendatus1

3 жыл бұрын

In 1993 when I started to learn windows, norton commander the hard drive in that computer was 30 Mb.

I have 2 of those discs in my garage. Horribly scratched but quite a find.

@classiccomputermuseum

5 жыл бұрын

Would you sell the discs to a museum? Please visit www.classiccomputermuseum.com and write to me.

@x5nash870

3 жыл бұрын

@@classiccomputermuseum did he sold it

@achimb657

3 жыл бұрын

@@x5nash870 Not for sale.

This is amazing ❤️ I grew up near the campus. I’d love to see it restored to its original beauty.

This is a good example of why IBM dominated the PC market in business anyway during the 80's. People remembered IBM created the first business computer, so it was just assumed by business that IBM knew better than Apple.

@RetroSwim

8 жыл бұрын

+WaybackTECH Apple had no products in the enterprise market in the 80s. Of course IBM "knew better", any amount of knowledge is better than zero. So of course Apple wasn't the competition in the enterprise, it was still the old players from the minicomputer era like Honeywell, DEC and HP, and newcomers like Sun.

woooow and the hard disk was born !

I was looking for a video showing the first hard drive,; thanks for that; I did the calculations; it took 105 man years to make it; some things have to have a team.

Eyo, we have 1TB Micro SD cards now. What a way we’ve come. Got this video recommended today. 10:42PM CST on 1/20/2021 while on my sofa couch in the living room.

I love these old videos!

Woooow.... five whole megabytes! That's a whole song! :O

@funnyberries4017

3 жыл бұрын

People in the future are going to laugh at our Quantum computers with 20 quibits

@redjoker07

3 жыл бұрын

@@funnyberries4017 yeah, and I think in 4000 years, the 64-bit architecture would be unusable

WOW, where did you find this ? I love seeing the beginnings of things we take for granted these days!

Great thank you for this video even after 8 years hope to find another videos like this

When data was "just" text 5Mb was a LOT. This was DAMN impressive for 1950s tech. I installed an external 5Mb hard drive for my TRS-80 Model III in 1983. Even in 1983 it cost several times what the actual computer cost. (Hell, It cost what my CAR cost!) and THAT was almost 30 years after RAMAC!

In the 90s I remember worked in a university lab that was once used for maintenance of some of the first vacuum tube computers (starting with the second one in fact). Hunting though the cabinets and storage rooms you would being fine piles of old equipment dating back to these days. Random bits of computing history used as door stops, hand painted platters wedged under a wobbly desk leg, hand woven core memory tossed in boxes of random tools.

I sure do wish that more videos like this existed

And that's why i love it. 40's and 50's back!

It seems huge... until you try to build a hard drive from scratch in your garage.

This is mad how we now have ssds or HDDs that can store 13 tb of data is the size of our hand

I wonder whether they ever got anywhere with that! So exciting!

Then in 1986 the 41 megabyte jewelry box sized drive is born. 1990, bye bye stepper motor heads, all mainstream hard drives have voice coil heads. In 2007, 1 terabyte 3.5 inch hard drives for 400 dollars anyone. 2013, helium filled hard drives were introduced starting at 6TB. In 2013, ultra thin laptops and pretty much all new custom built gaming rigs have M.2 NVME SSDs, SSDs are lightning fast.

Amazing how they show the invention of the hard drive, now we store information on a small chip rather than on spinning platters, imagine going to the electronics store and buying a storage device the size of a fridge that can store 1 jpeg file or 1 mp3 file!

This thing beat the snot out of those old tape drives. Sure, the tape drives looked amazing, but they were really damn slow.

Very inspiring indeed!!!

ibm, rulers of the data management world for 100+ years. crushed by it's own weight and poor vision. truly an American tragedy

@eloyex

4 жыл бұрын

that is true. what a shame right ???

Bloody amazing for the time. I *think* somewhere my dad has a 3MB 5.25" hard drive.

got reccomended, love it

Awesome! I believe solid state was also prototyped pretty early.

Cool film.

I'm watching on a Vivo IQOO3 with the most advanced UFS 3.1 Storage (256GB), LPDDR5 12 GB RAM and Snapdragon 865 processor in 2020.

I remember lusting over the new IBM PC/XT.

Amazing

i think they meant a character as in a letter, number or anything else, which is 8 bits, 8bits = 1 byte, so 5million characters * 1 byte = 5 million bytes, or 5mb

5 MB of text documents is a lot of hundreds pages. Good work IBM.

I watch this with a computer with a 1TB hard drive the size of my hand.. oh, how times have changed.

@Alexagrigorieff

3 жыл бұрын

I watch this with a computer with a 2TB SSD the size of my pointing finger.

Жёсткий диск из токарного/шлифовального станка, гениально! )))

dat was so beautiful

You guys laugh at 5 MB hard drive, while our descendant laugh at our 5 TB HDD

@xxxggthyf

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure that's true. I have a Pi 3 based NAS with 10TB of space and even with almost every file I've created or downloaded over the last 20 years transferred to it I still have over 6TB left over which I'll probably never fill in my lifetime. Business is one thing but for most ordinary people hard drives have reached the point where they are bigger than they'll ever need. I don't think petabyte hard drives for home use will ever be a thing.

@verzocktes

3 жыл бұрын

They'll laugh at HDD

@randompirates4824

3 жыл бұрын

@@verzocktes somebody already did it

HAHA also, the buildings at 9:32 look like they have those QR codes you can scan with your cell phone LOL!

@SlofSi

3 жыл бұрын

Great design :)

I still have one with a 5 mb video of a gogo dancer at the Atlantic City peir, it's the same video Nucky seen in Boardwalk Empire.

Each character was 7 bits, composed of two zone bits ("X" and "O"), four BCD bits for the value of the digit, and an odd parity bit ("R") in the following format: X O 8 4 2 1 R

Holy shit ! I want more videos

Yes, it worked out but it is sad and speaks volumes about humans that the primary focus of this was money/greed and not the scientific endeavors high density data storage would/made possible.

Well, it's IBM catering to their market. Remember, IBM = International Business Machines.

Crazy how far we've come in 12 years!

@Alexagrigorieff

3 жыл бұрын

The film was made about 63 years ago.

5:58 I wonder how many of those guys got their neckties caught in that contraption?

Man, awesome to think about a time where California was an innovative oasis!

Why pay $50,000 for 5 megabytes on something the size of a washing machine, when you can pay $50 for a 128 GIGABYTE SD card? Technology has changed so much over the years. Imagine if we could time travel to the days of the IBM 350 and show them a 128 GB SD card

Just think, we think we are modern today, as we did 20 years ago. What will we think 20 years from now? And, technology complexity increases exponentially. Scary!

OMG that RAMAC is a pile of low density huge disks with just 1 reading head! The full access time should be around 2 seconds

@MaximilianBrandt

4 жыл бұрын

THE IMPOSSIBLE SPEED

Basically a giant hardrive

Now this is more my Technology

7:53 The keyboard looks like a Radio Shack Color Computer ("CoCo") 😲

And now we have 16 TB HDDs and SSDs...

now we can carry like 1TB in a micro SSD

Yeah this needs a rifftrax :)

Those were the Days. American Optimism - It's all gone.

This reminds me of Thunderbirds....

Holy crap! 5 MILLION characters!!!! (that's 5MB)

Would you look at those steel support beams...

If you frame by frame it, he's carrying a disconnected full-size desk phone as a prop...

I know its not like modern HDDs but seeing the discs out in the open and being handled with bare hands makes me wince a bit

@jameswest8280

2 жыл бұрын

We don't need no stinking clean room.

Imagine all that for 5 megabytes of storage capacity! Now you can have 128 *gigabytes* of static storage on a chip the size of your little fingernail, and it's reliable (i.e micro-SD).😮 We've come a long way baby!

bigger than the laser disc

still better than a library :)

She's the first version of wifi

I bet the guys that had to move that thing near the water at 1:27 were scared as hell not to tip it.

3:01 Did IBM just predict linux? O_O

Now I know where NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 1968 got their music from. This leave it to beaver video

so thats how the hard disks apeared

@b43xoit

15 күн бұрын

Srsly.

This is history

And it was installed on the city on the Moon!

Hey, if id didn't work they could always use it to cut logs.

1:22 I'm surprised if there's any other video anywhere, which shows a hard drive at the side of a swimming pool... :D

@SlofSi

3 жыл бұрын

WD, Seagate and Toshiba should adopt this in their advertising, I think.

"E-lectronic machine" LOL

Netflix: are you still watching? Me: 2:15

Way back then, only the biggest and richest companies can afford a system that performs the simplest calculation, computation and data searching operations. Nowadays, we have computers at almost every home which are millions or billions of times more efficient and more powerful than what they had back then and connected to the whole world via high speed internet, but we use that technology so we can "shoot", "frag" and "kill" each other in an online game then engage in a trash talk right after the game...

fast forward 50 yrs we have a 32 gb memory card vs before they had a 5mb HDD The Size Of a mini fridge and can it play darude sandstorm?

@ryantexada9269

6 жыл бұрын

PAW Team actually it could store it

This Film is Innotive. It shows how the Hard Drive was born. So, The hard drive is 68 years old ?

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so it's business requirement that leads to invention of modern hdd, interesting

Now days we have 1tb ssd and 100tb ssd and hhd now

@jameswest8280

2 жыл бұрын

I did the math, it would take 400,000 of these to replace one of my 2TB SSDs.

2016: IBM finally managed to develope a horizontal version of the machine which fits through a doorway 5:02