Storage basic information sources

• Fifty years of storage innovation
  2002 booklet on history of IBM magnetic tape 1952-2002
• 20th century disk storage chronology
  key events in IBM disk storage 1956-2000
• 21st century storage chronology
  key events in IBM storage 2001-2003
• Magnetic tape system improvements
  compares IBM magnetic tape systems 1953-1973
• Magnetic head development
  compares IBM disk products 1957-1981
• Disk performance gains
  compares three IBM DASDs with RAMAC
• A few facts about IBM storage
  terabytes and medals

• The evolution of magnetic storage (1,471KB)

  1981 article in IBM Journal of Research & Development

• A quarter century of disk file innovation(1,844KB)

  1981 article in IBM Journal of Research & Development

• Innovations in the design of magnetic tape subsystems(906KB)

  1981 article in IBM Journal of Research & Development

• IBM diskette and diskette drive(1,089KB)

  1981 article in IBM Journal of Research & Development

• Innovations in disk file manufacturing(1,415KB)

  1981 article in IBM Journal of Research & Development

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