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...
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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 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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1944: Mark I, the first general purpose digital computer (unless you count certain others) was built at Harvard under the direction of Howard Aiken. the Mark I was used by the ... 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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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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From early floppy disks to optical drives, looking at the development and technology of removable media for computer data. ... A Word document with a few embedded graphics results in a multi-megabyte data file, quite incapable of being shoehorned into a floppy disk.
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www.pctechguide.com/36Storage.htm
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; 3.5" & 5.25" Floppy Disk retail software for IBM, Windows and Dos ; ... Paul Allen (l.) and a young Bill Gates (cofounder of Microsoft) work together on the industry's first operating system; (Late 1960's or early 1970's); ... Has built-in calendar, calculator and notepad functions also! Hard drive required.
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www.oldsoftware.com/floppy.html
www.oldsoftware.com/floppy.html
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ScramDisk is a Hard Drive encryption program that runs under Windows 95 & 98 and provides a number of 'high security' ciphers including 3DES, Blowfish and IDEA. Encryption is done in CBC-mode using random IV & pre-encryption whitening values. ... The executable program is very small and can be carried on a 3 1/2" floppy disk.
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www.scramdisk.clara.net/
www.scramdisk.clara.net/
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In 1970 the eight inch floppy disk drive was introduced by IBM. My first floppy drives were made by Shugart who was one of the "dirty dozen" who left IBM to start their own companies. In 1981 two Shugart 8 inch floppy drives with enclosure and power supply cost me about $350.00. They were for my second computer.
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www.duxcw.com/digest/guides/hd/hd2.htm
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