Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk ... Shugart's team designed a 5.25-inch 'mini floppy' disk in 1976 that stored ...

(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 ...

In 2022, Japan's digital minister "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech like CDs and mini-discs ... especially in the so-called "lobit" subculture, which celebrates low-bitrate ...

3M, or as it was officially called until 2002 ... to be is the subject of an article by [Ernie Smith], focusing on floppy disk storage. Although 3M was not the one to invent floppy disks or ...