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Description
Produced by IBM Department of Education, this video illustrates the capabilities of the machine called Random Access Method of Accounting and Control (RAMAC). The machine was revolutionary because it could do three things simultaneously – store, process, and report. RAMAC contained the world’s first disk drive and was the first computer able to keep business records up to date and make them instantly available. Random access memory allowed RAMAC to pluck information from storage without plodding through it sequentially, a development that is essential to the way computers are used today. The machine was the first engineering success of the west coast research laboratory that IBM established in San Jose in 1952. California Preservation Service
Type
moving image
Format
Filmstrip
Form/Genre
Educational
Extent
1 Reel of 1
Identifier
102738919 camvchm_000014
Subject
Random access memory IBM 650 (Computer) IBM San Jose Research Laboratory
Provenance
Computer History Museum California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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