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The floppy disk patent was granted today in 1972 — when 80KB took up 8 inches and were really floppy
The patent application for the floppy disk was granted to two IBM engineers on this day in 1972.
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How Iomega Zip drives almost solved the floppy disk problem (before USB made them obsolete)
We have it good now that USB is a thing, but I sometimes miss the old ways to transfer files ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Floppy disks -- who needs 'em? They're not practical for storing digital photos, MP3 compressed music files or any of the other accoutrements of the digital lifestyle. They don't ...
Through the looking glass: Do you remember floppy disks? The archaic storage device used to ruled computers of the 1980s and 1990s, but a good number of you reading this may have never seen or used ...
If you're a member of Gen A, there's a good chance you've never seen anything called a "floppy disk." If you're Gen Z or older, you've almost certainly handled floppies (and you may even be collecting ...
Floppy disks may seem like a relic from an ancient time of computers but there are still places and even governments in the world that still use them to run its most basic functions. Japan is no ...
The Japanese government is finally doing away with 3.5-inch floppy disks, almost two years after it announced its intention to scrap them. “We have won the war on floppy disks,” Taro Kono, Japan’s ...
A multidisciplinary group at Carnegie Mellon University has recovered three new digital images produced by Andy Warhol in 1985. The files were found on “Amiga floppy disks stored in the archives ...
When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...
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