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Dave, kind of a basic question, but when was the floppy disk invented, and how big was the first floppy disk, both in terms of size and storage capacity? ... Accurite has an excellent page on floppy disk drives, if you want to travel further into the past, the history of computer technology. Me? I'll just use my DVD-RW to...
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www.askdavetaylor.com/when_was_the_floppy_disk_invented...
www.askdavetaylor.com/when_was_the_floppy_disk_invented.html
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Floppy disk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A floppy disk is a data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible ("floppy") magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. Floppy disks are read and wri...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
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Boot TS - Boot Sequence Is Floppy Disk First ... The system is being told to try to boot the floppy drive first. ... Assuming that there is a bootable floppy disk in the A: drive, the BIOS should attempt to boot it.
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www.pcguide.com/ts/x/boot/walk/seqAC.htm
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Nothing happens at all with the floppy disk drive; the hard disk activates and the system tries to boot it; Nothing happens with the floppy disk or the hard disk; the boot process stopped; The floppy disk makes a noise and the light comes on...
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www.pcguide.com/ts/x/boot/walk/seqAC-i.htm
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1820: The first commercially available calculator, the Arithmometer, was produced by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar of France. The user dialed numbers with a set of wheels, ... 1967: IBM built the first floppy disk drives (8" SSSD, 256K). ... 1980: Seagate ships the first Winchester (sealed) 5" hard disk - 5-Meg, $600.
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www.aaxnet.com/info/hist.html
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MS-DOS checks all installed disk devices, assigning the drive letter A to the first physical floppy disk drive that is found. ... If a second physical floppy disk drive is present, it is assigned drive letter B. If it is not present, a logical drive B is created that uses the first physical floppy disk drive.
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www.kbalertz.com/kb_Q51978.aspx
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Floppy disk drives were originally introduced commercially as a read-only device to hold microcode and diagnostics for large IBM mainframe computer systems in the early 1970s. By changing the diskette ... These first commercial floppy drives were physically quite large and used 8 inch diskettes recorded on only one side.
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www.accurite.com/FloppyPrimer.html
www.accurite.com/FloppyPrimer.html
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Pop Quiz: What was the first personal computer? ... Be careful before you answer! The question is highly ambiguous. Are you sure you know what first means? How about personal? Even computer is an ambiguous term!
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www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml
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'the floppy disk drive (FDD) was invented at IBM by alan shugart in 1967. the first floppy drives used an 8-inch disk (later called a 'diskette' as it got smaller), which evolved into the 5.25-inch disk that was used on the first IBM Personal;
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www.designboom.com/history/floppydisk.html
www.designboom.com/history/floppydisk.html
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