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

In 1952, a small IBM research laboratory for finding new approaches to data processing was founded in a leased building in San Jose, California, under the leadership of Rey Johnson. Under Johnson's leadership, the lab created the first magnetic disk drive and an associated online transaction-oriented system.

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