I'm a member of the team that restored this machine--the world's first hard disk drive.

我是修復此機器 -- 世界上第一個硬碟 -- 團隊的一員

It was announced in 1956 it was the first product of IBM's laboratory in San Jose, California.

在 1956 年， 它被宣佈為 IBM 實驗室在加州 San Jose的第一個產品

This is a big machine with a very small capacity.

這是一個容量很小的大機器

However, in 1956 it was very important.

然而，在 1956 年，它非常的重要

This machine had 50 disks 24 inches in diameter.

這台機器有 50 張直徑 24 英寸的磁片

It stores a total of 5 million 6-bit characters, 3.75 megabytes in today's world.

總共儲存了 500 萬個 6 位元的字元， 相當於今天的 3.75 百萬字位元組 (megabytes)

Any disk drive that doesn't have at least gigabytes in it is obsolete by modern standards.

根據現代的標準，任何沒有 gigabytes 的硬碟是過時的

It was actually designed to run a request from the Air Force

它實際上是為了執行空軍的請求所設計的

for storage capacity for their 50,000 spare parts inventory.

為了儲存 50,000 的備件庫存

It was designed to hold 50,000 character records

它設計成可容納 50,000 個字元記錄

with access to any records in less than a second.

在不到一秒的時間內，就能讀取到所有的記錄