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  2. History of IBM magnetic disk drives - Wikipedia

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    Another important IBM innovation is the floppy disk drive. IBM first introduced the 8-inch FDD in 1971 as a read only program load device. In 1973 IBM shipped its first read/write floppy disk drive as a part of the 3740 Data Entry System.

  3. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    8-inch floppy disk, inserted in drive, (3½-inch floppy diskette, in front, shown for scale) 3½-inch, high-density floppy diskettes with adhesive labels affixed The first commercial floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (203.2 mm) in diameter; [4] [5] they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and both drives and disks were then sold ...

  4. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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    IBM 33FD 8 inch Single 1 77 26 128 240.5 kiB 360 FM Diskette 1 [20] 15 256 277.5 kiB 8 512 296 kiB IBM 43FD 2 26 128 481 kiB Diskette 2 [20] 15 256 555 kiB IBM 53FD Double 26 256 962 kiB MFM Diskette 2D [20] 15 512 1.08 MiB 8 1,024 1.16 MiB DEC RX01 8 inch Single 1 77 26 128 250 kB 360 FM DEC RX02 8 inch Double 1 77 26 256 500 kB 360 FM/MFM DEC ...

  5. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    The Quick Disk uses a 2.8-inch magnetic media, break-off write-protection tabs (one for each side), and contains a see-through hole near the center spindle (used to ensure spindle clamping). Nintendo packaged the 2.8-inch magnetic media in a 3-inch×4-inch housing, while others packaged the same media in a 3-inch×3-inch square housing.

  6. Floppy disk variants - Wikipedia

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    A Maxell-branded 3-inch Compact Floppy Disk. The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. [1] Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats used in IBM PC compatible systems, or the 8-inch format that preceded them, many proprietary floppy disk formats were developed, either using a different disk design or special layout and ...

  7. IBM 3740 - Wikipedia

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    IBM 3740 Data Entry System was a data entry system that was announced by IBM in 1973. It recorded data on an 8" diskette, a new recording medium from IBM, for fast, flexible, efficient data entry to either high-production, centralized operations or to decentralized, remote operations. [1] The "Diskette" was more commonly known as an 8-inch ...

  8. History of hard disk drives - Wikipedia

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    1976 – 1976 IBM 3350 "Madrid" – 317.5 megabytes, eight 14-inch disks, re-introduction of disk drive with fixed disk media; 1979 – IBM 3370 introduced thin-film heads, 571 MB, non-removable; 1979 – IBM 0680 Piccolo – 64.5 megabytes, six 8-inch disks, first 8-inch HDD; 1980 – The IBM 3380 was the

  9. List of disk drive form factors - Wikipedia

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    IBM's first hard drive, the IBM 350, used a stack of fifty 24-inch platters and was of a size comparable to two large refrigerators. In 1962, IBM introduced its model 1311 disk, which used six 14-inch (nominal size) platters in a removable pack and was roughly the size of a washing machine. This became a standard platter size and drive form ...