In early computers drum storage consisted of a large metal cylinder, coated on the outside surface with a ferromagnetic recording material. Drums were later largely replaced by the hard disk drive.
Drums were used as main memory by IBM in computers including the IBM 305 and IBM 650; IBM also offered drum devices as secondary storage for the 700/7000 series and System/360 series of computers.
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