The IBM 1301 Disk Storage Announced

Posted on June 2, 2012 by GilPress

Today in 1961, IBM announced the IBM 1301 Disk Storage Unit. The storage capacity per square inch of surface was increased 13 times over what it had been with the first disk drive, the IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit, introduced five years earlier.  

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