PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy ... The 720KB 3.5" floppy was introduced on IBM's Convertible laptop. Capacity doubled to 1.44MB with the PS/2 line, and 1.44MB ...
Long before we were using modems and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) to share programs, pictures ... by hand carrying disks. In 1981, Sony introduced the 3.5-inch floppy disk. It quickly gained ...
Hardware giant Compaq introduced two storage technologies last week, a 120Mb disk drive and rewriteable CD. Neil Dagger, Compaq option product manager, said this spells the end of the 1.44Mb floppy.