Its popularity lasted well into the 1990s, solidifying the floppy disk's position as a ubiquitous storage medium. This design started with 720KB of storage, but its most popular version held 1.44MB.

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 ...

There he found an ISA board capable of controlling up to eight drives from [Sergey Kiselev] called the Monster Floppy Disk Controller ... You can tell this design was put together during the ...

The Zip was a floppy-like technology with design concepts from hard disks and Iomega's earlier Bernoulli disks. The drive's bundled software could lock the files for security. See Bernoulli box.

It is the culmination of several design stages aimed at replacing an ... the emulator in order to configure which virtual floppy disk is currently ‘in the drive’. He’s even gone so far ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...