Photo gallery: Making the first disk drive

By ZDNet Australia, CNET News.com
19 September 2006 12:03 PM
Tags: hdd, ibm, hitachi, hard, disk, drive, platter, magnetic
A 14-inch platter (right) is dwarfed by its 24-inch predecessor. Fourteen-inchers came out in the early 1960s, when demand began to grow. Disks with 14-inch platters were stacked into heavy, but moveable, bundles that could be carried from one system to another.

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