Reynold B. Johnson’s San Jose team coated aluminum disks with iron oxide paint for the IBM 305 RAMAC in 1956, and IBM executives called the stacked-disk design the baloney slicer. It held about 5 megabytes and weighed more than a ton. – Make Tech Easier
By Make Tech Easier Editorial Publication Date: 2026-10-24 09:27:00 Random-access memory was not a new idea when IBM’s engineers started…