{"id":1245,"date":"2006-07-27T11:44:55","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T15:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2006-08-24T15:20:38","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T19:20:38","slug":"ramac-and-interactivity-pictorial-history-of-media-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"RAMAC and Interactivity: Pictorial History of Media Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/ibm-305-ramac.jpg\" title=\"IBM 305 RAMAC\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/ibm-305-ramac.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"IBM 305 RAMAC\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedmagic.com\/history\/index.html\">Pictorial History of Media Technology<\/a> is a slide show history of computing and media, especially video technology. It is on a site dedicated to &#8220;Capacitance Electronic Discs or CED&#8217;s, a consumer video format on grooved vinyl discs that was marketed by RCA in the 1980&#8217;s.&#8221; The slide show has pictures of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_305\">IBM 305<\/a> RAMAC Computer with what was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedmagic.com\/history\/ibm-305-ramac.html\">first disk drive<\/a> in production. What&#8217;s so important about the RAMAC?<\/p>\n<p>Matthew G. Kirschenbaum in a blog entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otal.umd.edu\/~mgk\/blog\/archives\/000237.html\">An Excerpt from <i>Mechanisms<\/i>, Professor RAMAC<\/a> and in an article for <a href=\"texttechnology.mcmaster.ca\/archives.html\">Text Technology<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/texttechnology.mcmaster.ca\/pdf\/vol13_2_06.pdf\">Extreme Inscription: Towards a Grammatology of the Hard Drive<\/a>, argues that,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Magnetic disk media, more specifically the hard disk drive, was to become that technology and, as much as bitmapped-GUIs and the mouse, usher in a new era of interactive, real-time computing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Krischenbaum is right that interactivity wouldn&#8217;t be possible without random access memory and he takes this in an interesting direction around inscription. I look forward to his book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictorial History of Media Technology is a slide show history of computing and media, especially video technology. It is on a site dedicated to &#8220;Capacitance Electronic Discs or CED&#8217;s, a consumer video format on grooved vinyl discs that was marketed by RCA in the 1980&#8217;s.&#8221; The slide show has pictures of the IBM 305 RAMAC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1245\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RAMAC and Interactivity: Pictorial History of Media Technology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foundations-of-computing","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-interface-design-and-usability","category-multimedia-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}