60th Anniversary of IBM San Jose, CA Facility

IBM Corp. opened a a storage development laboratory in San Jose, CA on September 1952 or just 60 years ago. It was its first West Coast lab, designing the first hard disk drive, the Ramac 350, then
officially revealed by a press release dated September 14, 1956.

The IBM HDD activity was sold to Hitachi in 2002 for $2.050 billion, becoming Hitachi GST. This latter was bought by WD in 2011 for $4.9 billion.

Read also:
History: First HDD at 55 From IBM at 100
Ramac 350: 4.4MB, $11,000 per megabyte

Documents:
IBM RAMAC 350, by Rey Johnson at the DataStorage ’89 Conference
Disk Drives’ Evolution, by Jim Porter, President, DISK/TREND
IBM 350 disk storage unit
Half a Century of Disk Drives and Philosophy: From IBM to Seagate
Thanks, IBM, for the memories