Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...
When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...
How this latter came to be is the subject of an article by [Ernie Smith], focusing on floppy disk storage. Although 3M was not the one to invent floppy disks or magnetic storage, their expertise ...
I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of ...
Two-thirds of under-18s don't know what a floppy disk is In 2018, researchers showed 2,011 kids photos of different technologies and asked them to name each one. The results showed 67 per cent ...
What’s actually on the floppy, then? The corresponding Spotify album URL. He just pops a disk in the drive, and the Pi does the rest — it detects the floppy event and executes a script that ...