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Lot 627W

IBM 62GV Hard Drive.
Metal base with plexiglas cover and General Electric A.C. motor, 710 x 500 x 185 mm, c. 1974.

5 December 2018, 14:00 EST
New York

US$800 - US$1,200

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IBM 62GV Hard Drive.

Metal base with plexiglas cover and General Electric A.C. motor, 710 x 500 x 185 mm, c. 1974.

The IBM 62GV was the first known hard drive to ship over 100,000 units. The 5 MB hard drive was developed at the company's Hursley, England laboratory under the code name Gulliver. It used a rotary actuator with one 14-inch disk. The unit here is driven by a General Electric AC motor and the 14-inch disk itself along with the read/write head is visible under a formed Plexiglas cover.

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