Shugart's team designed a 5.25-inch 'mini floppy' disk in 1976 that stored 87.5KB and within two years, more than 10 manufacturers were making 5.25-inch floppy drives. The shrink to 3.5-inch disks ...

Floppies may be big in Japan, but nostalgic and/or needful Stateside floppy enthusiasts ... you can buy new floppies of all sizes, both new and old, recycle your disks, or send them in to get ...

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 It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s.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 ...

Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since ... While there is enough electrical compatibility to connect the two there remains a variety of connectors used ...

(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 ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

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 ...