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1956 IBM hard drive

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:33:38 -0500, wrote:

The IBM random access disks used hydraulics to move the heads until
the 3330 came along.

The 2311 and 2314 were hydraulic? If I ever knew that at all, I'd
forgotten. It's hard to believe they could keep it from leaking but
IBM had some amazing stuff. In those days their equipment reliability
was head and shoulders above everyone else.

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