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 ...

Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a simple hard drive controller. Later, IDE hard drives became the defacto standard. Of course, these days, you are more likely to find some version of ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.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

(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 ...

It's created when a hard drive is partitioned, but it's not located within a partition. This means non-partitioned storage mediums, like floppy disks, don't contain a master boot record.

Since Floppy Disk was the first hard drive to store the data and run the computer programs, it was named with the letter A and was introduced by IBM. The Floppy Disk had only 1.44 MB storage capacity.

A removable disk module that contains a single hard disk platter or a floppy disk. See cartridge. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

removable hard drives, and USB thumb drives so cheap they are trade show giveaways. 2009 was a difficult year for floppy disc manufacturing, but the business is actually rebounding a bit in 2010 ...