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  2. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    Floppy disks remained a popular medium for nearly 40 years, but their use was declining by the mid- to late 1990s. [4] After 2000, floppy disks were increasingly rare and used primarily with older hardware, especially with legacy industrial and musical equipment. [5] Sony manufactured its last new floppy disks in 2011. [6]

  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. Yoshiro Nakamatsu - Wikipedia

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    However, what Nakamatsu patented in 1952 was a paper for optical sound player. [12] In contrast to a floppy disk, this Nakamatsu patent discloses the use of printed paper for storage instead of the magnetic material of a floppy disk. It is not rewritable and lacks most elements of the IBM floppy disk patent.

  5. History of hard disk drives - Wikipedia

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    However, by the late 1980s, hard disk drives were standard on all but the cheapest PC and floppy disks were used almost solely as transport media. Most hard disk drives in the early 1980s were sold to PC end users by systems integrators such as the Corvus Disk System or the systems manufacturer such as the Apple ProFile.

  6. History of computing in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The 12th five-year plan demanded the production of over one million personal computers, and 10 million floppy disks. [57] Between 1986 and 1988, Soviet schools received 87,808 computers out of a planned 111,000. About 60,000 were BK-0010s, as part of the KUVT-86 computer-facility systems. [58]

  7. Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of ...

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    Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy.

  8. Dysan - Wikipedia

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    Dysan 3.5" floppy disk Dysan Corporation was an American storage media manufacturing corporation, formed in 1973 in San Jose, California , by CEO and former president C. Norman Dion. It was instrumental in the development of the 5.25" floppy disk , which appeared in 1976.

  9. 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 ...