This first allowed 3M to make a name for itself with its Scotch magnetic (reel-to-reel) tape, followed by 3M moving into the floppy disk market by 1973. Over the years following this introduction ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated ... nothing is eternal and everything that seems to be very vague or obscure, especially in the digital realm ...

Then floppy disks were upgraded first to 160KB and then 360KB ... and perform an unbelievably great job for very small bits of data." Well, that's part of it. But, another part is technical ...

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 ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

The system first came into usage in 1998 and was expected to last 20 to 25 years, meaning that it passed the upper margin of that time frame last year. The lifespan of an individual floppy disk ...