When Was The Floppy Disk Invented?
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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?
What a fun question! I can remember in 1980 using these behemoth 8″ floppy disks on a Terak microcomputer, learning PDP-11 assembly language while in college. Ah, but that dates me a bit, doesn’t it? :-)
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 1970s to allow service engineers to update the microcode on a mainframe or even run diagnostics. These first disks were…
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