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 ...

Starting with a disk caddy on linear rails, [Smith] has a track for the floppy to follow ... are all you really need to do the job by hand, but if you have a lot of floppies, that can get tedious ...

That is, literally walking the information from one computer to another by hand carrying disks. In 1981, Sony introduced the 3.5-inch floppy disk. It quickly gained popularity due to its smaller ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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 ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

(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 ...

You might think the era of the 3.5 inch “floppy” disk is over, and of course ... which is why the team at Adafruit recommend having a few on hand if you want to maximize your chances of ...

Requiring a code that you’ll either have to steal from someone leaving or find through internet sleuthing, once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead ...

FOR anyone over the age of 40 and familiar with computers, floppy disks were a fact of life until what feels like relatively recently. For those younger than 40, a floppy disk was the ...