【终极转载】美国计算机历史博物馆展览-内存和存储之18谁使用过RAMAC？
Who used RAMAC?
The RAMAC computer and disk drive was marketed for processing transactions “in modern business where time is money.”
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谁用过RAMAC？
RAMAC计算机和磁盘驱动器的销售目的是“在时间就是金钱的现代商业中”处理交易。
Who used RAMAC?
RAMAC benefited anyone needing swift, random access to large amounts of information. It enabled a new era of “transaction processing,” updating data immediately rather than off-line in “batch mode.”
Crown-Zellerbach Paper Company bought the first RAMAC. Ironically, Crown was a leading supplier of stock for punched cards…which RAMAC helped replace. Other users included the 1960 Winter Olympics. Business Week noted, “Within moments, twin RAMACs will compute and print…results that would otherwise require hours of human calculation.”
Over 1,000 RAMAC systems sold to government, businesses, universities, and the military.
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谁用过RAMAC？
RAMAC使任何需要快速，随机访问大量信息的人受益。它启用了“事务处理”的新时代，即在“批处理模式”下立即更新数据而不是脱机。
Crown-Zellerbach纸业公司购买了第一台RAMAC。具有讽刺意味的是，Crown是一家领先的穿孔卡库存供应商...... RAMAC帮助取代了这些库存。其他用户包括1960年冬季奥运会。“商业周刊”指出，“在短时间内，双胞胎RAMAC将计算和打印......结果将需要数小时的人工计算。”
超过1,000个RAMAC系统销售给政府，企业，大学和军队。
RAMAC Advertisement
The IBM 305 RAMAC was a vacuum-tube computer that processed business transactions in real time. RAMAC’s disk drive was also available for the IBM 650 computer.
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RAMAC广告
IBM 305 RAMAC是一台真空管计算机，可实时处理业务交易。RAMAC的磁盘驱动器也可用于IBM 650计算机。
Wonders of RAMAC
“The secret of Professor Ramac’s remarkable ‘memory’ is a stack of 50 fast spinning disks….Stored on these disks by means of magnetism are the principal historical events of the world….”
So proclaimed an IBM press release accompanying a RAMAC at the U.S. Pavilion at the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels.
Two years later, the Winter Olympics used another RAMAC system to calculate game scores in real time for the first time.
IBM was eager to find ways to excite the general public—not just engineers—by RAMAC’s potential.
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RAMAC的奇迹
“Ramac教授非凡'记忆'的秘密就是一堆50个快速旋转的磁盘.......通过磁力存储在这些磁盘上是世界上主要的历史事件.......”
所以在1958年布鲁塞尔世界博览会的美国馆宣布了一份IBM新闻稿。
两年后，冬季奥运会使用另一个RAMAC系统首次实时计算游戏分数。
IBM渴望通过RAMAC的潜力找到激励普通大众的方法，而不仅仅是工程师。
IBM Pavilion, 1958 World’s Fair
IBM drew large crowds at the Fair with its 305 RAMAC system. RAMAC could answer questions on world history in 10 different languages.
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IBM Pavilion，1958年世界博览会
IBM凭借其305 RAMAC系统吸引了众多观众。RAMAC可以用10种不同语言回答有关世界历史的问题。
IBM representative speaking with visitor
Visitors to the 1958 Brussels World Fair in 1958 could ask “Professor RAMAC” questions covering two thousand years of world history.
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IBM代表与访客交谈
1958年参加1958年布鲁塞尔世界博览会的参观者可以向“RAMAC教授”提问，这些问题涉及两千年的世界历史。
Why San Jose?
There’s often tension between, “we’ve always done it this way,” and the need for original thinking to create breakthroughs.
Recognizing this, IBM in 1952 established a research lab in San Jose, California. The distance from New York—a 12-hour plane ride—gave the lab independence to pursue fresh ideas, such as RAMAC.
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圣何塞为什么？
“我们总是以这种方式做到这一点”之间经常存在紧张关系，并且需要原始思维来创造突破。
认识到这一点，IBM于1952年在加利福尼亚州圣何塞建立了一个研究实验室。距离纽约 - 一个12小时的飞机 - 的距离让实验室独立，以寻求新的想法，如RAMAC。
IBM San Jose laboratory
IBM’s west coast laboratory at 99 Notre Dame Street, San Jose, California — the birthplace of the world’s first disk drive.
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IBM San Jose实验室
IBM位于加利福尼亚州圣何塞市圣母大街99号的西海岸实验室 - 世界上第一个磁盘驱动器的诞生地。
RAMAC Assembly
IBM’s computer manufacturing in California had started in a former Del Monte fruit shed. Here, engineers test systems before customer shipment.
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RAMAC大会
IBM在加利福尼亚的计算机制造业开始于前Del Monte水果棚。在这里，工程师在客户发货前测试系统。
RAMAC Rivals
Companies besides IBM explored new storage ideas. Bryant Chucking Grinder Company, a computer drum manufacturer, began developing a disk drive in 1959—a horizontal shaft with eight or more 39” magnesium disks. Few sold.
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RAMAC竞争对手
IBM以外的公司探索了新的存储创意。计算机鼓制造商Bryant Chucking Grinder公司于1959年开始开发一种磁盘驱动器 - 一种带有八个或更多39“镁磁盘的水平轴。很少卖。
Bryant large disk drive
This giant disk drive from Bryant stored up to 205 MB, the equivalent of 2.6 million punched cards. It was so large that special flooring was needed to support its weight.
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科比大磁盘驱动器
这款来自Bryant的巨型磁盘驱动器存储了多达205 MB，相当于260万张打孔卡。它太大了，需要特殊的地板来支撑它的重量。
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