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The floppy disk was invented by IBM engineers led by Alan Shugart. ... The "floppy" was invented by IBM engineers led by Alan Shugart. The first disks were designed for loading microcodes into the controller of the Merlin (IBM 3330) disk pack file (a 100 MB storage device). So, in effect, the first floppies were used to...
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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...
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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 Floppy disks have now been largely superseded by other storage mediums and by network file transfer.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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Magnetic storage goes as far back as the 1900 World's Fair, where a Danish engineer (Valdemar Poulsen) introduced a telegraphone . Floppy disks are used all over the world and they were invented in 1950 at the Imperial University in Tokyo b...
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I dug around for this one and found some interesting information. According to floppy drive repair company Accurite, floppy disks were introduced by IBM in the early 1970's to allow service engineers to update the microcode on a mainframe...
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When they invented the floppy-disk, they forgot to prepare Windows for the floppy-autorun. Now were going to have it anyway. MagicDisk 98 gives every floppy its own icon, its own (endless) name and an execution link, thatll be activated when you insert that floppy.
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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 inside the floppy drive, service engineers could easily update the microcode to the latest revisions or load diagnostics...
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www.accurite.com/FloppyPrimer.html
www.accurite.com/FloppyPrimer.html
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Floppy disks are used all over the world and they were invented in 1950 at the Imperial University in Tokyo by Doctor Yoshiro Nakamats. He granted the sales licence for the floppy disk to IBM...
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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 Computer in August 1981. The 5.25-inch disk held 360 kilobytes compared to the...
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www.howstuffworks.com/floppy-disk-drive1.htm
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