IBM today launched three hard disk drive products — the Deskstar 120GXP, Travelstar 60GH and Travelstar 40GN — that include its magnetic coating technology, nicknamed pixie dust.

In 1964 IBM Corporation announced a new family of room-sized computers, the IBM 360 System. ... three forms of tape drive, a disk storage drive, and a printer with paper. Most systems also would have ...

IBM's director of hard disk drive technology holds up the 1956 "RAMAC" and a 2002 IBM Microdrive at ... 1956 and gave birth to the disk drive industry. May 7, 1946.

IBM's FlashSystem C200 aims to replace HDDs with high-capacity flash storage It delivers 1.1PB raw capacity, 2.3PB effective, ...

We had an IBM 360 that was fully configured with every peripheral IBM had at the time. ... For a 360/22. Yep, vacuum tapes, disk drives, printers that could play songs ...

AFC media is now shipping in IBM's Travelstar notebook hard disk drive products with data densities up to 25.7 gigabits per square inch. In time, IBM plans to implement AFC media across all of its ...

International Business Machines Corp. announced Monday that its disk-drive engineers have developed a technique that will lead to quadrupling disk capacity during the next two years, enabling hand ...

I used to fix the IBM 360 65, had a customer with half a dozen I did this while I was in my early twenties in the 1980s. I also could fix a 2401 or a1403 and at least know a little about the 2540 ...

Hard drives eventually became commodities by the late 1990s, and the division started losing money for IBM. The company sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi for $2 billion in 2002.

Other data storage hot buttons that IBM continues to research-besides disk drives and tape-include flash memory, power and cooling, virtualization, long-term (100-year) storage, and storage ...