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A Brief History ... 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 inside the floppy drive, service engineers could easily update the microcode to the latest revisions...
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The floppy disk was the first truly portable form of information storage for computers. Sure, you could move tape drives around at risk of severely damaging the tape, and you could move punch cards from computer to computer, but both of these storage options were unwieldy.
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The nickname "floppy" came from the disk's flexibility. The floppy disk was considered a revolutionary device in the "History of Computers" for its portability which provided a new and easy physical means of transporting data from computer to computer.
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History of the Floppy Disk Drive ... 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 Computer in August 1981. The 5.25-inch disk...
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History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Over the history of the floppy disk a number of different formats were used. Floppy disks have now been largely superseded by other storage mediums and by network file transfer. In 1967, IBM gave th...
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The eight inch floppy disk was introduced to the computer service industry in 1970 by a team of IBM engineers headed by Alan Shugart. This was not a device for the everyday computer user; ... Carlos A. Ramirez < CSE 301 The History of Computing = Stony Brook University...
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www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Stu/caramire/floppy/history.htm
www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Stu/caramire/floppy/history.htm
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Free Tech Support on When was the floppy disk invented? from Dave Taylor ... 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 burn, and re-burn, 4.7GB at a time. Floppy disks are just too darn small...
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Notice the capacity of these floppy disks (lower right hand corner of the disk label). These were software for my Sanyo 1000 CP/M computer. I can't remember how much RAM it had, but there was no hard drive and only one, 310K floppy drive.
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www.oftheeising.com/onlinehistory/floppydisks.htm
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