The Computer History Museum (CHM) recently released six video-recorded oral histories of key engineers and scientists from Japan who made seminal contributions to the magnetic recording technologies used in hard disk drives. Hard disk drives were invented by IBM in the United States in the mid-1950s and have formed the backbone of high-speed random access storage for over six decades: today’s hard disk drives share many of the same components—albeit greatly refined—as the first 1956 […]