Check out IBM's 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) hard disk and those gripes about dragging around that USB thumb drive soon evaporate. This 1956 HDD was composed of 50 24 ...

Don't laugh. On Sept. 13, 1956, IBM shipped the first unit of the RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) and set in motion a process that would change the way we live. The RAMAC ...

A software routine that is part of the operating system or network control ... access method (ISAM), which uses an index in sequential order that points to records stored in random order.

Weighing in at about 1,000 kilograms, the 305 RAMAC (random access method of accounting and control) was the world’s most expensive jukebox. It stored 4.4 megabytes on 50 double-sided disks ...