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  2. 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 ...

  3. Yoshiro Nakamatsu - Wikipedia

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    Upon the basis of the Juusyoku Record patent issued in 1952, Nakamatsu claims to have invented the first floppy disk [3] well before IBM's floppy disk patent was filed in 1969. [26] However, what Nakamatsu patented in 1952 was a paper for optical sound player. [ 12 ]

  4. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    White 5¼-inch floppy disk. Floppy disks were supported on IBM's PC DOS and Microsoft's MS-DOS from their beginning on the original IBM PC. With version 1.0 of PC DOS (1981), only single-sided 160 KB floppies were supported. Version 1.1 the next year saw support expand to double-sided 320 KB disks. Finally, in 1983, DOS 2.0 supported 9 sectors ...

  5. Remember floppy disks? This supplier says business is booming

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    STORY: (Tim Persky, Floppy disk seller)"If you think this is old, take a look at this. This is a floppy disk from the 1970s."This man is believed to be the world's last known bulk supplier of ...

  6. Floppy disks obsolete, headed for the recycle bin

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    A modern 4-gigabyte card the size of your little-toe nail has the capacity of 11,650 of these old floppies. The more recent 3 1/2" floppies, introduced around 1983, held 1 megabyte of data, equal ...

  7. From floppy disks to AI: Meet the man who brought Richland ...

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    “We were setting up Office 95 installed off floppy disks, 3-1/4-inch box of 50 diskettes,” he said. ... we basically ended up ripping it out part-way through the year and went back to the old ...

  8. Verbatim (brand) - Wikipedia

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    A pair of 5.25" floppy disks from 1978. In 1969, the first digital-grade tape cassettes were released. [citation needed] 8" diskettes were first released in 1974. In 1991, Verbatim released the world's first 3.5" magneto-optical disk. Verbatim started its successful foray into the optical disc market in 1993 with CD-R media.

  9. Woman discovers creepy trove of floppy disks in the woods - AOL

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    It was a box of floppy disks. “I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s military,” she said, seemingly serious but potentially making a joke about what an old medium floppy disks are. Most of the ...