In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of ...

That is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 ... and new storage formats like USB flash drives and memory cards emerged, the floppy disk's reign waned in the mid-to-late 1990s.

The other Nintendo floppy disk on display was the Famicom ... could hold 120 Megabytes in an era when hard drive sizes were still under a Gigabyte. 99% of audio CDs you’ll find are circular ...

(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 ...

to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require one. Utility programs such as Virtual Floppy Drive (VFD) can be used to ...

"It's a question of risk," Tumlin explained in a three-minute segment about the floppy replacement ... here's a tale from 1998 about drives sold at the time, in sizes ranging from 5GB to 16.8GB.