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  2. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    Drawings from IBM Floppy Disk Drive Patents. IBM's decision in the late 1960s to use semiconductor memory as the writeable control store for future systems and control units created a requirement for an inexpensive and reliable read only device and associated medium to store and ship the control store's microprogram and at system power on to load the microprogram into the control store.

  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. Good Omens - Wikipedia

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    It was indeed plotted in long daily phone calls, and we would post floppy disks (and this was back in 1988 when floppy disks really were pretty darn floppy) back and forth. [7] Pratchett said: I think this is an honest account of the process of writing Good Omens.

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

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    There are a lot of people in the tool and die business who use floppy disks.""Most people don't know that about a third to a half of all of the aircraft flying today were built 20 years ago.

  7. Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) - Wikipedia

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    Its principal notoriety arose from the fact that the poem, stored on a 3.5" floppy disk, was programmed to encrypt itself after a single use; similarly, the pages of the artist's book were treated with photosensitive chemicals, effecting the gradual fading of the words and images from the book's first exposure to light. [5]

  8. 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 had to basically load all the software manually.” Director of information technology

  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 ...