COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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Who is known as the father of the disk drive?
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Reynold.B.Johnson
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Mac Milan
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John Napier
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Reynold B. Johnson (July 16, 1906 – September 15, 1998) was an American inventor and computer pioneer. A long-time employee of IBM, Johnson is said to be the “father” of the hard disk drive.
Detailed explanation-2: -Informed by Jacob Rabinow’s ideas at NBS, IBM developed and shipped the first commercial Hard Disk Drive (HDD), the Model 350 disk storage unit, to Zellerbach Paper, San Francisco in June 1956 as part of the IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) system.
Detailed explanation-3: -1980 – The IBM 3380 was the world’s first gigabyte-capacity disk drive.
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