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
Compare the size of the RAMAC's disk stack with a modern 1-inch microdrive platter. In the RAMAC, the head couldn't touch the platters. Engineers had to compensate for air, dust and other environmental factors. Later drives encapsulated the head inside the drive.

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