Article: The Return Of Removable Hard Disk Drive Architecture.(Technology Information)

Many people don't realize that the founding fathers of the Winchester disk drive at IBM Corporation originally mandated that the computer's primary storage device, the magnetic hard disk drive, was to be removable. This requirement was necessitated by application demands to interchange digital files with computer mainframes, to back up data for security, and to archive information and libraries for extended periods of time. IBM executives in their overzealous confidence, stopped manufacturing tape drive systems because removable disk drives would serve as backup/archival storage systems and there would be no need for inferior tape storage media.

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