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 ...

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 ...

For many of us the passing of the floppy disk is unlamented ... environment which allows browsing of files on a floppy. The pictures show a 3.5″ drive, but it also supports 5.25″ units ...

A method for converting a single-sided 5.25" floppy disk into a double-sided disk. By punching a second notch in the jacket, the disk could be flipped over and inserted upside down. This was a ...

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.