D101 Magnetic Drum Unit

By admin , 15 December 2015
D101
Description

In 1958, Fuji Communications Equipment Manufacturing Co. (currently Fujitsu Ltd.) completed the D101, their first magnetic drum unit for computers. In terms of performance, this equipment had 675,000 bits of memory capacity and a maximum access time of 21ms.

Year First Manufactured
1958

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