The first 5.25-inch floppy disk was introduced by Shugart Associates in 1976 to be compatible with IBM mainframe computers. When IBM introduced the AT personal computer, the 5.25-inch floppy made ...

By early 1971, IBM shipped its first computer with a read-only drive for the 8-inch floppy disk causing other companies like Memorex and Shugart to take notice.

Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB, which is what many of us think of as their default size. That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 along with ...

Only a tiny percentage of PCs currently sold still have floppy disk drives. "The floppy disk looks increasingly quaint and simply isn't able to compete," said Bryan Magrath, commercial director of PC ...

The eternal floppy disk you could still be using every day is that floppy disk icon sitting somewhere in upper left hand corner of your Microsoft Word, Excel, or other desktop application.

First the Internet freed people from having to carry around their ... Americans bought $265 million worth of floppy disks last ... (which still includes a floppy drive with each computer, ...

With the dawn of the 21st Century, however, for most computer users, floppy disks were on their way out – increasingly supplanted by writeable CDs and thumb drives. And now, cloud storage is ...