IBM RAMAC

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RAMAC is an IBM trademark for mass storage products. Two different product families share the RAMAC name. RAMAC was originally an acronym for "Random Access Method of Accounting and Control".

Contents 1 Original RAMAC 2 RAMAC redux 3 See also 4 Notes

[edit] Original RAMAC

The IBM 305 RAMAC computer system, introduced in 1956, was the first computer to use a hard disk drive (disk storage), the IBM 350.

[edit] RAMAC redux

In the 1990s, IBM reused the RAMAC name for its Array Storage product family.

[edit] See also

• Early IBM disk storage

[edit] Notes