Editing IBM 305 RAMAC (section)

==History==
RAMAC was developed and manufactured at IBM's research facility in [[San Jose, California]]. In 1959, IBM's CEO [[Thomas J. Watson Jr.]] exhibited the RAMAC in [[Moscow]]. This led to a visit by Soviet leader [[Nikita Khrushchev]] to IBM's San Jose facility.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McElvenny |first=Ralph |title=The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived |last2=Wortman |first2=Marc |isbn=978-1-5417-6852-9 |pages=276}}</ref> 

The first RAMAC to be used in the U.S. auto industry was installed at [[Chrysler]]'s [[MOPAR]] Division in 1957. It replaced a huge [[tub file]] which was part of MOPAR's parts inventory control and order processing system.

During the [[1960 Winter Olympics|1960 Olympic Winter Games]] in [[Squaw Valley Ski Resort|Squaw Valley]] (USA), IBM provided the first electronic data processing systems for the  Games. The system featured an IBM RAMAC 305 computer, punched card data collection, and a central printing facility.

More than 1,000 systems were built. Production ended in 1961; the RAMAC computer lost front-runner status in 1962 when the [[IBM 1405]] Disk Storage Unit for the [[IBM 1401]] was introduced, and the 305 was withdrawn in 1969.